For now I am going with 64kb and results seem good. Thanks for the useful feedback.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 3/19/2014 12:09 AM, Salman Akram wrote: > >> Thanks for the info. The articles were really useful but still seems I >> have >> to do my own testing to find the right page size? I thought for large >> indexes there would already be some tests done in SOLR community. >> >> Side note: We are heavily using Microsoft technology (.NET etc) for >> development so by looking at all the pros/cons decided to stick with >> Windows. Wasn't rude ;) >> > > Assuming you are only going to be putting Solr data on it, or anything > else you put on it will also consist of large files, I would probably go > with a cluster size at least 64KB for an NTFS volume, and I might consider > 128KB or 256KB. There *ARE* a few small files in a Solr index, but not > enough of them for the wasted space to become a problem. > > The easiest way to configure Solr to use a different location than the > program directory is to change the solr home. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > -- Regards, Salman Akram
