Re: How much free disk space will I need to optimize my index

2014-06-26 Thread johnmunir
size?!!! -- MJ -Original Message- From: Walter Underwood To: solr-user Sent: Thu, Jun 26, 2014 10:50 am Subject: Re: How much free disk space will I need to optimize my index The 3x worst case is: 1. All documents are in one segment. 2. Without merging, all documents are deleted

Re: How much free disk space will I need to optimize my index

2014-06-26 Thread Walter Underwood
The 3x worst case is: 1. All documents are in one segment. 2. Without merging, all documents are deleted, then re-added and committed. 3. A merge is done. At the end of step 2, there are two equal-sized segments, 2X the space needed. During step 3, a third segment of that size is created. This

Re: How much free disk space will I need to optimize my index

2014-06-26 Thread Thomas Egense
That is correct, but twice the disk space is theoretically not enough. Worst case is actually three times the storage, I guess this worst case can happen if you also submit new documents to the index while optimizing. I have experienced 2.5 times the disk space during an optimize for a large index,

RE: How much free disk space will I need to optimize my index

2014-06-25 Thread Markus Jelsma
-Original message- > From:johnmu...@aol.com > Sent: Wednesday 25th June 2014 20:13 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: How much free disk space will I need to optimize my index > > Hi, > > > I need to de-fragment my index. My question is, how much free disk space I > ne