Re: Changing mergeFactor in mid-stream?

[Mark Miller]

Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
Yes, you can change the mergeFactor.  More important than the mergeFactor is 
this:
<ramBufferSizeMB>32</ramBufferSizeMB>

Pump it up as much as your hardware/JVM allows.  And use appropriate -Xmx, of 
course.
  
Is that true? I thought there was a sweet spot for the RAM buffer (and 
not as high as youd think)? You might want to test that out a bit before 
riding it too high...