On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, engy.ali<omeshm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Summary > =============== > > I had about 120,000 object of total size 71.2 GB, those objects are already > indexed using Lucene. The index size is about 111 GB. > > I tried to use solr 1.4 nightly build to index the same collection. I > divided collection on three servers, each server had 5 solr instances (not > solr cores) up and running. > > After collection had been indexed, i merge the 15 indexes. > > Problems > ============== > > 1. The new merged index size is about 411 GB (i.e: 4 times larger than old > index using lucene) > > I tried to index only on object using lucene and same object using solr to > verify the size and the result was that the new index is about twice size of > old index. > > DO you have any idea what might be the reason?
Check out the schema you are using - it may contain copyFields, etc. You should be able to get to exactly the same size of index as you had with Lucene (Solr just uses Lucene for indexing after all). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
