mergeFactor=5 means that if there are 42 documents, there will be 3 index files:
1 with 25 documents, 3 with 5 documents, and 1 with 2 documents Imagine making change with coins of 1 document, 5 documents, 5^2 documents, 5^3 documents, etc. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > This sounds completley normal form what i remembe about mergeFactor. > > Segmenets are merged "by level" meaning that with a mergeFactor of 5, once > 5 "level 1" segments are formed they are merged into a single "level 2" > segment. then 5 more "level 1" segments are allowed to form before the > next merge (resulting in 2 "legel 2" sements). Once you have 5 "level 2" > sements, then they are all merged into a single "level 3" segment, etc... > > : I had my mergeFactor as 5 , > : but when i load a data with some 1,00,000 i got some 12 .cfs files in my > : data/index folder . > : > : How come this is possible . > : in what context we can have more no of .cfs files > > > -Hoss > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
