RE:Delete, commit, optimize doesn't reduce index file size

2009-12-31 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Is there another way to make this happen without making further changes : to the index? Maybe a bounce of the servlet server? Lucene only actively tries to delete these files when it needs to write to the directory for some reason, so unfortunately no. I've opened a Jira issue with some misc

RE:Delete, commit, optimize doesn't reduce index file size

2009-12-30 Thread Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade
Is there another way to make this happen without making further changes to the index? Maybe a bounce of the servlet server? On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM, markwaddle wrote: I have an index that used to have ~38M docs at 17.2GB. I deleted all but 13K docs using a delete by query, commit and t