On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Fuad Efendi <f...@efendi.ca> wrote: > > Mark, I don't understand this; of course it is use case specific, I haven't > seen any terrible behaviour with 8Gb
If you had gone over 2GB of actual buffer *usage*, it would have broke... Guaranteed. We've now added a check in Lucene 2.9.1 that will throw an exception if you try to go over 2048MB. And as the javadoc says, to be on the safe side, you probably shouldn't go too near 2048 - perhaps 2000MB is a good practical limit. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
