Re: Switching existing solr indexes from Segment to Compound Style index files

2011-01-19 Thread Markus Jelsma
Indeed, wouldn't reducing the number of segments be a better idea? Speeds up searching too! Do you happen to have a very high mergeFactor value for each core? On Wednesday 19 January 2011 17:53:12 Erick Erickson wrote: > You're perhaps exactly right in your approach, but with a bit more info > w

Re: Switching existing solr indexes from Segment to Compound Style index files

2011-01-19 Thread Erick Erickson
Let's back up a ways here and figure out why you're getting so many files open. 1> how many files are in your index? 2> are you committing very frequently? 3> or do you simply have a LOT of cores? 4> do you optimize your indexes? If so, how many files to you have in your cores before/after optimiz