We use the following merge policy on SSD's and are running on physical machines with linux OS.
<mergeFactor>10</mergeFactor> <mergePolicy class="org.apache.lucene.index.TieredMergePolicy"/> <mergeScheduler class="org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler"> <int name="maxThreadCount">3</int> <int name="maxMergeCount">15</int> </mergeScheduler> <ramBufferSizeMB>64</ramBufferSizeMB> Not sure if its very aggressive, but its something we keep to prevent deleted documents taking up too much space on our index. Is there some error message that solr logs when rename and deletion of the directories fails. If so we could monitor our logs to get a better idea for the root cause. At present we can only react when things go wrong based on disk space alarms. Thanks, Rishi. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Multiple-index-timestamp-directories-using-up-disk-space-tp4201098p4204145.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.