On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Michael <solrco...@gmail.com> wrote: > So -- I thought I understood you to mean that if I frequently merge, > it's basically the same as an optimize, and cruft will get purged. Am > I misunderstanding you?
That only applies to the segments involved in the merge. The deleted documents are left behind when old segments are merged into a new segment. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com