index

The index is a metadata repository for crawled documents and provides the search results list.

Object Type

Universal

State Properties

Property Value
estimatedFragmentation Decimal number representing the percent of fragmentation; optimize the index when fragmentation is greater than 50%

Supported Operations

export
getState
update

Administration GUI Page

Global Settings - Set Indexing Parameters

XML Description

The <search:index> element describes indexing:

<search:index>
   <search:indexingBatchSize>
   <search:indexingMemorySize>

Element Descriptions 

<search:index>

Describes the indexing parameters. It contains these elements:

<search:indexingBatchSize>
<search:indexingMemorySize>
<search:indexingBatchSize>

Contains the size in megabytes of the crawled documents before indexing begins. Crawling and indexing run concurrently after the initial batch size is reached. While the index is running, the crawler continues to crawl documents.

The default size is 250 MB.

<search:indexingMemorySize>

Contains the number of megabytes of memory used for indexing before swapping to disk. A large amount of memory improves both indexing and query performance.

The default size is 275 MB.

Example

This XML document configures the indexing properties:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<search:config productVersion="11.1.2.0.0" xmlns:search="http://xmlns.oracle.com/search">
   <search:index>
      <search:indexingBatchSize>250</search:indexingBatchSize>
      <search:indexingMemorySize>275</search:indexingMemorySize>
   </search:index>
</search:config>