Well, you haven't told us anything about your setup, like how big the corpus is, how big your index is, what "large increase" means (1G? 16G?).
Have a look at: http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_5_0/fileformats.html#file-names and watch the file size changes with and without the information in order to make an estimate.... Best Erick On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see that adding this information can improve performance while > highlighting and enable some other components like mlt at the expense of > disk space, but my question is this information always loaded into memory > or only when needed on a per doc basis? I ask because I can afford the disk > space but large increases in memory usage I may not be able to support
