Yes a new searcher is opened with every soft commit. It's still considered faster because it does not write to the disk which is a slow IO operation and might take a lot more time.
On Sunday, August 11, 2013, tamanjit.bin...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > Hi, > Some confusion in my head. > http:// > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#A.22commit.22_and_.22optimize.22 > <http:// > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#A.22commit.22_and_.22optimize.22 > > > says that > /A soft commit is much faster since it only makes index changes visible and > does not fsync index files or write a new index descriptor./ > > So this means that even with every softcommit a new searcher opens right? > If > it does, isn't it still very heavy? > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/commit-vs-soft-commit-tp4083817.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- -- Shreejay Nair Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse brevity and typos.
