Re: Optimize question

2018-04-23 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 4/23/2018 11:13 AM, Scott M. wrote: I recently installed Solr 7.1 and configured it to work with Dovecot for full-text searching. It works great but after about 2 days of indexing, I've pressed the 'Optimize' button. At that point it had collected about 17 million documents and it was takin

Re: Optimize question

2018-04-23 Thread Erick Erickson
No, it's not "optimizing on its own". At least it better not be. As far as your index growing after optimize, that's the little "gotcha" with optimize, see: https://lucidworks.com/2017/10/13/segment-merging-deleted-documents-optimize-may-bad/ This is being addressed in the 7.4 time frame (hopeful