Thanks Erick, our index is relatively static. I think the deletes must be
coming from 'reindexing' the same documents so definitely handy to recover
the space. I've seen that video before. Definitely very interesting.
Brendan
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> The general
The general advice is to not merge (optimize) unless your
index is relatively static. You're quite correct, optimizing
simply recovers the space from deleted documents, otherwise
it won't change much (except having fewer segments).
Here's a _great_ video that Mike McCandless put together:
http://b
To maybe answer another one of my questions about the 50Gb recovered when
running:
curl '
http://localhost:8983/solr/update?optimize=true&maxSegments=10&waitFlush=false
'
It looks to me that it was from deleted docs being completely removed from
the index.
Thanks
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:45
Well, I guess I can answer one of my questions which I didn't exactly
explicitly state, which is: how do I force solr to merge segments to a
given maximum. I forgot about doing this:
curl '
http://localhost:8983/solr/update?optimize=true&maxSegments=10&waitFlush=false
'
which reduced the number o
