RE: Doubt about index size

2010-11-12 Thread Burton-West, Tom
-Original Message- From: Claudio Devecchi [mailto:cdevec...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:13 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Doubt about index size Hi Tom, thanks for your explanation, Do you recommend the index continues this way? Or can I configure it to make

Re: Doubt about index size

2010-11-12 Thread Erick Erickson
It's probably a good idea to optimize. How are you re-indexing anyway? DIH? custom code? post.jar? Manual optimizing is just issuing the appropriate curl command, see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#A.22commit.22_and_.22optimize.22 Best Erick On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Clau

Re: Doubt about index size

2010-11-12 Thread Claudio Devecchi
Hi Tom, thanks for your explanation, Do you recommend the index continues this way? Or can I configure it to make optmize automatically? tks On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Burton-West, Tom wrote: > Hi Claudio, > > What's happening when you re-index the documents is that Solr/Lucene > implemen

RE: Doubt about index size

2010-11-12 Thread Burton-West, Tom
Hi Claudio, What's happening when you re-index the documents is that Solr/Lucene implements an update as a delete plus a new index. Because of the nature of inverted indexes, deleting documents requires a rewrite of the entire index. In order to avoid rewriting the entire index each time one d