The field is not stored in a discrete place, rather it is mixed up with all other field/document data. Therefore, I would suggest that attempting to discern the disk space consumed by a single field would be a futile endeavour.
Upayavira On Tue, Jan 5, 2016, at 12:04 PM, KNitin wrote: > I want to get the field size (in kb or mb) as is It is stored on disk. > That > approach might not give that info. > > On Monday, January 4, 2016, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Solr does store the term positions, but you won't find it easy to > > extract them, as they are stored against terms not fields. > > > > Your best bet is to index field lengths into Solr alongside the field > > values. You could use an UpdateProcessor to do this if you want to do it > > in Solr. > > > > Upayavira > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016, at 12:39 AM, KNitin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to get the size of individual fields per document (or per index) > > > in > > > solrcloud. Is there a way to do this using exiting solr or lucene api? > > > > > > *Use case*: I have a few dynamic fields which may or may not be populated > > > everyday depending on certain conditions. I also do faceting and some > > > custom processing on these fields (using custom solr components). I want > > > to > > > be able to plot the per field size of an index in realtime so that I can > > > try to identify the trend between fields & latencies. > > > > > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > > Nitin > >
