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[Lucene-hadoop Wiki] Update of "FAQ" by Arun C Murthy

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  == 3. How well does Hadoop scale? ==
  
- Hadoop has been demonstrated on clusters of up to 902 nodes.  Sort performance is [http://www.mail-archive.com/hadoop-dev%40lucene.apache.org/msg01777.html good] and still improving.
+ Hadoop has been demonstrated on clusters of up to 902 nodes.  Sort performance is [https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12356727/post-H-1270.png good] (sort500 i.e. 5TB of data on 500 nodes takes around 2 1/2 hours) and still improving.
  
  == 4. Do I have to write my application in Java? ==