Hi, You are looking for maxMergeDocs, I believe.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: vivek sar <vivex...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:08:20 PM > Subject: Control segment size > > Hi, > > Is there any configuration to control the segments' file size in > Solr? Currently, I've an index (70G) with 80 segment files and one of > the file is 24G. We noticed that in some cases commit takes over 2 > hours to complete (committing 50K records), whereas usually it > finishes in 20 seconds. After further investigation it turns out the > system was doing lot of paging - the file system buffer was trying to > write back the big segment back to disk. I got 20G memory on system > with 6 G assigned to Solr instance (running 2 instances). > > It seems if I can control the segment size to max of 4-5 GB I'll be > ok. Is there any way to do so? > > I got merging factor of 100 - does that impacts the size too? Why > different segments have different size? > > Thanks, > -vivek
