Re: Purging unused segments.

2013-08-11 Thread Erick Erickson
Robert: Thanks a million, that'll teach me to grep for the obvious ... It's not even clear (I'm working twice-removed) that there _are_ unused files. I'm grasping at straws here Thanks again, Erick On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Erick

Re: Purging unused segments.

2013-08-09 Thread Robert Muir
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > > So is there a good way, without optimizing, to purge any segments not > referenced in the segments file? Actually I doubt that optimizing would > even do it if I _could_, any phantom segments aren't visible from the > segments file anyway..

Purging unused segments.

2013-08-09 Thread Erick Erickson
I have a situation in which I can't safely optimize, the index is on a machine that doesn't have enough disk space. I have no control over the hardware. There are some raw statistics on this index that don't make sense, it's roughly twice the size of a similar index (could be legit, but it seems ou