Re: ExternalFileField best practices

2010-08-28 Thread Andy
But isn't it the case that bf adds the boost value while {!boost} multiply the boost value? In my case I think a multiplication is more appropriate. So there's no way to use ExternalFileField in {!boost}? --- On Sat, 8/28/10, Lance Norskog wrote: > From: Lance Norskog > Subject: Re: ExternalF

Re: ExternalFileField best practices

2010-08-28 Thread Lance Norskog
You want the boost function bf= parameter. On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Andy wrote: > Lance, > > Thanks for the response. > > Can I use an ExternalFileField as an input to a boost query? > > For example, if I put the field "popularity" in an ExternalFileField, can I > still use "popularity"

Re: Multiple passes with WordDelimiterFilterFactory

2010-08-28 Thread Shawn Heisey
It's metadata for a collection of 45 million documents that is mostly photos, with some videos and text. The data is imported from a MySQL database and split among six large shards (each nearly 13GB) and a small shard with data added in the last week, which usually works out to between 300,000

Re: ExternalFileField best practices

2010-08-28 Thread Andy
Lance, Thanks for the response. Can I use an ExternalFileField as an input to a boost query? For example, if I put the field "popularity" in an ExternalFileField, can I still use "popularity" in a boosted query such as: {!boost b=log(popularity)}foo The doc says ExternalFileField can only be

Re: ExternalFileField best practices

2010-08-28 Thread Lance Norskog
The file is completely reloaded when you commit or optimize. There is no incremental update available. And, yes, this could be a scaling problem. How you update it is completely external to Solr. On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Andy wrote: > I'm interested in using ExternalFileField to store a

Re: JVM GC is very frequent.

2010-08-28 Thread Bill Au
Besides frequency, you should also look at duration of GC events. You may want to try the concurrent garbage collector if you see many long full gc. Bill 2010/8/25 Chengyang > We have about 500million documents are indexed.The index size is aobut 10G. > Running on a 32bit box. During the press

ExternalFileField best practices

2010-08-28 Thread Andy
I'm interested in using ExternalFileField to store a field "popularity" that is being updated frequently. However ExternalFileField seems to be a pretty obscure feature. Have a few questions: 1) Can anyone share your experience using it? 2) What is the most efficient way to update the externa

Implementing synonym NewBie

2010-08-28 Thread Jonty Rhods
Hi All, I want to use synonym for my search. Still I am in learning phase of solr. So please help me to implement synonym in my search. according to wiki synonym can be implemented in two ways. 1> at index time 2> at search time] I have combination 10 of phrase for synonym so which will be better