jpountz commented on issue #14255:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/14255#issuecomment-2666999215

   I looked into the failure: the test randomly configures 
`targetSearchConcurrency=27`. Since the index allows 
`ceil(numDocs/targetSearchConcurrency)` docs per segment at most, at long as 
there are less than 27*3=81 docs, only 2 docs are allowed per segment, so no 
merges occur. But when the index suddenly reaches 81 docs, merging is allowed, 
and 8 merges of 2 segments each are returned. These merges reduce the segment 
count by 8, which is more than segsPerTier=6, so the assertion that the number 
of segments may not decrease by more than `segsPerTier` fails.
   
   I am leaning towards removing the `count >= maxCount - 6` assertion. This 
test cares about the forceMerge behavior, which it only starts testing when the 
initial indexing finishes. On the other hand, this assertion runs during the 
initial indexing. I suspect that it was added as a sanity check, based on old 
assumptions of how `TieredMergePolicy` worked a long time ago. But 
TieredMergePolicy has become more sophisticated with the introduction 
`targetSearchConcurrency`, the removal of `maxMergeAtOnce` and other changes, 
and I don't think that this test should enforce that the number of segments may 
not decrease by more than `segsPerTier` between two document insertions.
   
   What do you think @benwtrent ?


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