Re: flashcache and solr/lucene

2012-03-01 Thread Robert Stewart
Any segment files on SSD will be faster in cases where the file is not in OS cache. If you have enough RAM a lot of index segment files will end up in OS system cache so it wont have to go to disk anyway. Since most indexes are bigger than RAM an SSD helps a lot. But if index is much larger than

flashcache and solr/lucene

2012-03-01 Thread dan sutton
Hi, Just wondering if anyone had any experience with solr and flashcache [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashcache], my guess it might be particularly useful for indicies not changing that often, and for large indicies where an SSD of that size is prohibitive. Cheers, Dan