Re: minimize disc space requirement.

2019-05-18 Thread Erick Erickson
It Depends (tm). No, limiting the background threads won’t help much. Here’s the issue: At time T, the segments file contains the current “snapshot” of the index, i.e. the names of all the segments that have been committed. At time T+N, another commit happens. Or, consider an optimize which for

Re: minimize disc space requirement.

2019-05-18 Thread Erick Erickson
Oh, and none of that includes people adding more and more documents to the existing replicas…. > On May 18, 2019, at 10:22 AM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > > On 5/18/2019 9:36 AM, tom_s wrote: >> im aware that the best practice is to have disk space on your solr servers >> to be 2 times the size of th

Re: minimize disc space requirement.

2019-05-18 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 5/18/2019 9:36 AM, tom_s wrote: im aware that the best practice is to have disk space on your solr servers to be 2 times the size of the index. but my goal to minimize this overhead and have my index occupy more than 50% of disk space. in our index documents have TTL, so documents are deleted