Earlier, you said that optimize is the only way that deleted documents are
expunged. That is false. They are expunged when the segment they are in is
merged. A forced merge (optimize) merges all segments, so will expunge all
deleted document. But those documents will be expunged by merges eventu
Thanks Erick!
That's a really interesting idea, i'll try it!
Another question would be, when does the merging actually happens? Is it
triggered or conditioned by something?
Currently I have a core with ~13M maxDocs and ~3M deleted docs, and although
I see a lot of merges in SPM, deleted documents
I'm going to answer with something completely different
First, though, optimization happens in the background, so it
shouldn't have too big an impact on query performance outside of
I/O contention. There also "shouldn't" be any problem with one
shard being optimized and one not.
Second, have
