: This works well when the number of fields is small, but what are the
: performance ramifications when the number of fields is more than 1000?
: Is this a serious performance killer? If yes, what would we need to
: counter act it, more RAM or faster CPU's? Or both?
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Hi,
I can't quantify it nor back it up with any concrete numbers, but the search
will most certainly be slower with so many fields. Indexing/analysis will also
be slower and with so many fields you'll want to pay extra attention to
mergeFactor and your OS's open file descriptor limit. Is this
