Adrien Grand created LUCENE-9529:
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Summary: Larger stored fields block sizes mean we're more likely
to disable optimized bulk merging
Key: LUCENE-9529
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9529
Project: Lucene - Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Adrien Grand
Whenever possible when merging stored fields, Lucene tries to copy the
compressed data instead of decompressing the source segment to then
re-compressing in the destination segment. A problem with this approach is that
if some blocks are incomplete (typically the last block of a segment) then it
remains incomplete in the destination segment too, and if we do it for too long
we end up with a bad compression ratio. So Lucene keeps track of these
incomplete blocks, and makes sure to keep a ratio of incomplete blocks below 1%.
But as we increased the block size, it has become more likely to have a high
ratio of incomplete blocks. E.g. if you have a segment with 1MB of stored
fields, with 16kB blocks like before, you have 63 complete blocks and 1
incomplete block, or 1.6%. But now with ~512kB blocks, you have one complete
block and 1 incomplete block, ie. 50%.
I'm not sure how to fix it or even whether it should be fixed but wanted to
open an issue to track this.
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