Lucene in Action, Second Edition

Chapter 11. Lucene administration and performance tuning

This chapter covers

• Tuning for performance
• Effectively using threads
• Managing disk, file descriptors, memory usage
• Backing up and restoring your index
• Checking an index for corruption and repairing it
• Understanding common errors

You’ve seen diverse examples of how to use Lucene for indexing and searching, including many advanced use cases. In this chapter we cover the practical, hands-on administrative aspects of Lucene. Some say administrative details are a mundane and necessary evil, but at least one of your beloved authors would beg to differ! A well-tuned Lucene application is like a well-maintained car: it will operate for years without problems, requiring only a small, informed ...