Zend Search Lucene HTTP 500 Internal Server Error while bulk indexing on small tables

Question

I am just getting started with Zend Search Lucene and am testing on a GoDaddy shared Linux account. Everything is working - I can create and search Lucene Documents. The problem is when I try to index my whole table for the first time I get a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error after about 30 seconds. If I rewrite my query so that I only select 100 rows of my table to index, it works fine.

I have already increased my php memory_limit settings to 128M. The table I'm trying to index is only 3000 rows and I'm indexing a few columns from each row.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Zend_Search_Lucene does not work very well for large data-sets in my experience. For that reason I switched the search backend to Apache Lucene in a larger project.