New User: Question about index locking options

the granularity of the lock? Please let me know if I can clarify anything... thanks for your time. Kind Regards, Alan May

Units for maxFieldLength

Hi, I'd love to get more details about the maxFieldLength attribute in the solrConfig.xml. Is this length in characters or bytes or some other measure? If chars, how are double byte characters handled? If an add request is sent with a field that exceeds this limit what is the behavior? (Is it