Lockfactory indicated by ../solr/admin/cores different from the setting in solrconfig.xml

hey We have set locktype to simple in solrconfig.xml using: simple. However on the page localhost:8983/solr/admin/cores shows: org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory:org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory/solr-cores/core0/data/index lockFactory=*org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory*@3415d

Re: Using RAMDirectoryFactory in Master/Slave setup

Thanks for the pointer to MMapDirectoryFactory. Not having replication with RAMDirectoryFactory is a deal killer. We dont want to index on the machines that serve queries. >From what I can gather from reading, MMapDirectory + SSD could be a happy medium. I'll try to evaluate these a bit more form

Re: Using RAMDirectoryFactory in Master/Slave setup

I found a similar post - http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Problems-with-RAMDirectory-in-Solr-td1575223.html It mentions that Java based replication might work (This is what I have used, but didn't work for me) More interestingly it points out that OS's file system cache maybe able to do this job

Using RAMDirectoryFactory in Master/Slave setup

PS: Sorry if this is a repost, I was unable to see my message in the mailing list - this may have been due to my outgoing email different from the one I used to subscribe to the list with. Overview – Trying to evaluate if keeping the index in memory using RAMDirectoryFactory can help in query perf