If I understand your question/situation correctly, then I think the answer is negative - the time required for the full optimization operation will grow as your index grows. But I may not be 100% up to date with the latest Lucene changes around index segment merges and such.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Nguyen Kien Trung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:52:44 PM > Subject: Can optimization take constant time? > > Hi, > > Given that: update/commit(optimize=false) is done at constant rate and > index size is increasing sequentially > The first optimization took X seconds. So if I do optimization > everyday, can I eventually obtain constant time for optimization process? > > Trung >
