Move live docs to disk? [LUCENE-9388]
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type:enhancement
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Description
Live docs are the last file format whose memory usage is a function of maxDoc, let's look into moving them to disk?
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Migrated from [LUCENE-9388](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9388) by Adrien Grand (@jpountz)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading the issue and the migrated LUCENE-9388 discussion, then locate Lucene's live-docs implementation and its file-format handling. Define the disk-based design and verify that live-doc memory usage is no longer a function of maxDoc.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100