Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote on 11/13/2009 11:18:42 PM:
> The 'maxSegments' feature is new with 1.4. I'm not sure that it will > cause any less disk I/O during optimize. It could still be useful to manage the "too many open files" problem that rears its ugly head on occasion. > The 'mergeFactor=2' idea is not what you think: in this case the index > is always "mostly optimized", so you never need to run optimize. > Indexing is always slower, because you amortize the optimize time into > little continuous chunks during indexing. You never stop indexing. You > should not lose documents. Is the space taken by deleted documents recovered in this case? Jerry
