I did not deliberately remove that button, so if it is missing, it could be a bug. Is it missing on the old, or new, or both UIs?
Thanks! Upayavira On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, at 07:08 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > Right, the whole optimize thing is in a bit of a state of flux. For > indexes that change quite regularly, it's something of a trap as > making one big segment gets in the way of the merging algorithm. It'll > still work, but it's not all that useful. > > For static indexes there's anecdotal evidence that it is useful, in > fact I know one of the devs is trying to quantify it now. > > Having an optimize button right there on core admin encourages people > to press it, who _wouldn't_ want an optimized index? ;) > > All that said, I'm not sure this is intentional or not, thanks for > bringing it up. If you must optimize, you can still do it by entering > this URL: > > http://solr_server:port/solr/core_or_collection_name/update?optimize=true > > We'll have to do something to reconcile the page in the admin guide > though if we leave the optimize button off. > > Best, > Erick > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Rick Leir <richard.l...@canadiana.ca> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Solr Admin new UI in 5.4 lost the Optimise button in core admin. What > > did it do, and is the 'Optimize' more automatic? Google is not helping me, > > but then perhaps I should go past the first results page! > > > > It is in the screendump here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Core+Admin > > > > no mention of it here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/CoreAdmin+API > > > > Thanks > > Rick
