thanks for your reply, my response below: On 9/5/07, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4-Sep-07, at 4:50 PM, Ravish Bhagdev wrote: > > > - I have about 11K html documents to index. > > - I'm trying to index these documents (along with 3 more small string > > fields) so that when I search within the "doc" field (field with the > > html file content), I can get results with snippets or highlights as I > > get when using nutch. > > - While going through Wiki I noticed that if I need to do highlighting > > in a particular field, I have to make sure it is indexed and stored. > > > > But when I try to do the above, after indexing about 3K files which > > creates index of about 800MB (which is fine as files are quite > > lengthy) it keeps giving out of heap space errors. > > > > Things I've tried without much help: > > > > - Increase memory of tomcat > > - Play around with settings like autoCommit (documents and time) > > - Reducing mergefactor to 5 > > - Reducing maxBufferedDocs to 100 > > Merge factor should not affect memory usage. You say that you > increased memory usage.. but to what? I've found reducing > maxBuffered Docs decreases my peak memory usage significantly. >
OK > > My question is also, if its required to store fields in index to be > > able to do highlighting/returning field content, how does nutch/lucene > > do it without that (because index for same documents created using > > nutch is much much smaller) > > Are you sure that it doesn't? According to: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/nutch/trunk/src/plugin/summary- > basic/src/java/org/apache/nutch/summary/basic/BasicSummarizer.java? > view=markup > > nutch does indeed take the stored text and re-analyses it when > generating a summary. Does nutch perhaps store less content of a > document, or in a different store? > I am not sure what it does internally but my educated guess is it doesn't store entire documents in index (going by index size). It is way too small when created using nutch to store entire documents (pretty sure of this part) > > But also when trying to query partially added documents, when I set > > field highlight on (and a particular field) it doesn't seem to have > > any effect. > > Does the field contain a match against one of the terms you are > querying for? > Yup > -Mike > > > Cheers, Ravi
