Read locks on indexes

[Shawn Konopinsky <sk...@blueprint.org>]

Hi,

I have a question regarding read locks on indexes. I have the situation 
where I have n applications (separated jvms) running queries. These 
applications are read-only, and never use an IndexWriter.

The index is only ever updated using rsync. The applications don't need 
up the minute updates, only the data from when the reader was created is 
fine.

My question is whether it's ok to disable read locks in this scenario? 
What are read locks protecting?

Best,
Shawn.

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Re: Read locks on indexes

[Luke Shannon <ls...@hypermedia.com>]

I think the read locks are preventing you from deleting from the index with
your reader and writing to the index with a writer at the same time.

If you never use a writer than I guess you don't need to worry about this.

But how do you create the indexes?

Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Konopinsky" <sk...@blueprint.org>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: Read locks on indexes


> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding read locks on indexes. I have the situation
> where I have n applications (separated jvms) running queries. These
> applications are read-only, and never use an IndexWriter.
>
> The index is only ever updated using rsync. The applications don't need
> up the minute updates, only the data from when the reader was created is
> fine.
>
> My question is whether it's ok to disable read locks in this scenario?
> What are read locks protecting?
>
> Best,
> Shawn.
>
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