On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: > Thanks to all and I made Solr work very well on one newer machine. > > Now I am setting up Solr on an older server with an IDE hard drive. > > Unfortunately, populating the index takes FOREVER due to > Solr/Lucene/Tomcat calling fsync() a lot after every write. > > I would like to know how to disable fsync. > > I am very aware of the risks of not having fsync() and I DO NOT CARE > ABOUT THEM AND DO NOT WANT TO BE REMINDED. > > I just want to know how can I disable fsync() when adding to Solr index.
Have a look at FSDirectory.fsync(). That's at least a starting point. YMMV.