I'm looking at StopFilter.java right now... I did a kill -3 java and a number of my threads were blocked here: "ksa-task-thread-34" prio=1 tid=0xad89fbe8 nid=0x1c6e waiting for monitor entry [b9bff000..b9bff8d0] at java.util.Hashtable.get(Hashtable.java:332) - waiting to lock <0x61569720> (a java.util.Hashtable) at org.apache.lucene.analysis.StopFilter.next(StopFilter.java:94) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentWriter.invertDocument(DocumentWriter.java:170) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentWriter.addDocument(DocumentWriter.java:111) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.addDocument(IndexWriter.java:257) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.addDocument(IndexWriter.java:244) at ksa.index.AdvancedIndexWriter.addDocument(AdvancedIndexWriter.java:136) at ksa.robot.FeedTaskParserListener.onItemEnd(FeedTaskParserListener.java:331) Is there ANY reason to keep this as a Hashtable? It's just preventing inversion across multiple threads. They all have to lock on this hashtable. Note that this guy is initialized ONCE and no more puts take place so I don't see why not. It's readonly after the StopFilter is created. I think this might really end up speeding up indexing a bit. No hard benchmarks yet though. Right now though it's just an inefficiency that should be removed. I've attached a quick implementation. Kevin -- Please reply using PGP: http://peerfear.org/pubkey.asc NewsMonster - http://www.newsmonster.org/ Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412 IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster