[pylucene-dev] optimize in 2.0.0

[Andi Vajda]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Yura Smolsky wrote:

> Hello, Andi.
>
> AV> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Yura Smolsky wrote:
>
>>> AV> Maybe the index was already optimized ?
>>>
>>> it was not optimized. is there incapability between old version of
>>> Lucene and new one?
>
> AV> If there is it should be just as with Java Lucene.
> AV> My understanding is that Lucene 2.0 should be able to read 1.4.3 indexes.
> AV> I'm not sure it should be able to write them. To find out for sure, you should
> AV> ask java-user at lucene.apache.org
>
> Actually Lucene (java) optimized it fine. And PyLucene does not want
> to perform any changes at all on the same index. Index is huge (40Gb)
> so I cannot pack it and send to you :) I will try to reproduce this
> thing on a smaller one.

Maybe the process is failing silently ?
What version of gcj did you use to build PyLucene ?
There are file size limits (2 or 4 gb) with gcj < 4.x

Andi..