Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

November 21, 2012

Lucene with Zing, Part 2

Filed under: Indexing,Java,Lucene,Zing JVM — Patrick Durusau @ 9:22 am

Lucene with Zing, Part 2 by Mike McCandless.

From the post:

When I last tested Lucene with the Zing JVM the results were impressive: Zing’s fully concurrent C4 garbage collector had very low pause times with the full English Wikipedia index (78 GB) loaded into RAMDirectory, which is not an easy feat since we know RAMDirectory is stressful for the garbage collector.

I had used Lucene 4.0.0 alpha for that first test, so I decided to re-test using Lucene’s 4.0.0 GA release and, surprisingly, the results changed! MMapDirectory’s max throughput was now better than RAMDirectory’s (versus being much lower before), and the concurrent mark/sweep collector (-XX:-UseConcMarkSweepGC) was no longer hitting long GC pauses.

This was very interesting! What change could improve MMapDirectory’s performance, and lower the pressure on concurrent mark/sweep’s GC to the point where pause times were so much lower in GA compared to alpha?

Mike updates his prior experience with Lucene and Zing.

Covers the use gcLogAnalyser and Fragger to understand “why” his performance test results changed from the alpha to GA releases.

Insights into both Lucene and Zing.

Have you considered loading your topic map into RAM?

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