*Don't* use JDK 7u40, it's been known to cause index corruption and SIGSEGV faults with Lucene: LUCENE-5212 This has not been unnoticed by Oracle.
~ David On 10/10/13 12:34 PM, "Guido Medina" <guido.med...@temetra.com> wrote: >2. Java version: There are huges performance winning between Java 5, 6 > and 7; we use Oracle JDK 7u40.