On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Otis Gospodnetic<otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yonik, > > Uncommitted (as in solr un"commit"ed) on unflushed?
Solr uncommitted. Even if the docs hit the disk via a segment flush, they aren't part of the index until the index descriptor (segments_n) is written pointing to that new segment. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com > Thanks, > Otis > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 11:10:49 AM >> Subject: Re: Is kill -9 safe or not? >> >> Kill -9 will not corrupt your index, but you would lose any >> uncommitted documents. >> >> -Yonik >> http://www.lucidimagination.com >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Michael _wrote: >> > I've seen several threads that are one or two years old saying that >> > performing "kill -9" on the java process running Solr either CAN, or CAN >> > NOT >> > corrupt your index. The more recent ones seem to say that it CAN NOT, but >> > before I bake a kill -9 into my control script (which first tries a normal >> > "kill", of course), I'd like to hear the answer straight from the horse's >> > mouth... >> > I'm using Solr 1.4 nightly from about a month ago. Can I kill -9 without >> > fear of having to rebuild my index? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Michael >> > > >
