You should be able to insert while optimizing. Do be aware that optimize will probably require that your disk have free _at least_ as much space as the index takes up.
It may just be that the disk is so busy with the optimize (it's mostly just writing from one file to another) that it's appearing to be slow... Best, Erick On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu <sandhus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I pressed the optimize switch. Wasn't the best decision I made today. The > aftermath of it was that when I tried to index more documents the curl just > waited and waited. > > I pinged my SOLR and all is well. I am able to access the admin console > also. I can query the SOLR machine too. But, I cannot insert into the > index. Is this behavior normal? > > Regards, > > Sid.