Late reply on this but I just wanted to say thanks for the suggestions. I went through my whole schema and was storing things that didn't need to be stored and indexing a lot of things that didn't need to be indexed. Just completed a full reindex and it's a much more reasonable size now.
Kevin On 8/20/07, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17-Aug-07, at 2:03 PM, Kevin Lewandowski wrote: > > > Are there any tips on reducing the index size or what factors most > > impact index size? > > > > My index has 2.7 million documents and is 200 gigabytes and growing. > > Most documents are around 2-3kb and there are about 30 indexed fields. > > An "ls -sh" will tell you roughly where the the space is being > occupied. There is something strange going on: 2.5kB * 2.7m is only > 6GB, and I have trouble imagining where the 30-fold index size > expansion is coming from. > > -Mike >
