Usually, Lucene will be optimizing (merging) segments on the fly so that you should only have a fraction of your total deletions present in the index and should never have an absolute need to do an old-fashioned full optimize.
What merge policy are you using? Is Solr otherwise running fine other than this optimize operation? -- Jack Krupansky On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:46 AM, ig01 <inna.gel...@elbitsystems.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your response, > The thing is that we have 180G index while half of it are deleted > documents. > We tried to run an optimization in order to shrink index size but it > crashes on ‘out of memory’ when the process reaches 120G. > Is it possible to optimize parts of the index? > Please advise what can we do in this situation. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Frequent-deletions-tp4176689p4178700.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >