[pylucene-dev] Locked index

[Nick Arnett]

Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> The Lucene locking code doesn't use the OS locking APIs offered by 
> Java 1.5, yet. Until then, that code is a little brittle. If you need 
> more reliability in this area, try using a database for your index 
> such as the DbDirectory implementation built around Berkeley DB. 
> PyLucene supports it. 

How does performance compare?

Will this work well for big indexes?  I'm at 6 GB and it looks like 
it'll hit abou 20 GB at the rate I'm going.

Thanks!

Nick