Peter Karman wrote:
> 
> 
>>    Writing word data: ...err: Ran out of memory (could not allocate
>>262144 more bytes)!
>>
> 
> I suggest getting a recent CVS snapshot build and trying that instead of
> 2.4.3. I seem to recall some fixes to memory allocation going in to CVS
> several months ago that might address your problem.
> 
> http://swish-e.org/devel/daily.html
> 
Thanks,

I still ran out of memory, so I've used two indexes. Search+highlighting 
is so fast (with 10 items on a page), that the extra overhead is very 
acceptable - even using quite complicated search strings.
Cheers and thanks again,
Kevin