Yonik Seeley-2 wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM, markwaddle <m...@markwaddle.com> wrote:
>> I have an index that used to have ~38M docs at 17.2GB. I deleted all but
>> 13K
>> docs using a delete by query, commit and then optimize. A "*:*" query now
>> returns 13K docs. The problem is that the files on disk are still 17.1GB
>> in
>> size. I expected the optimize to shrink the files. Is there a way I can
>> shrink them now that the index only has 13K docs?
>
> Are you on Windows?
> The IndexWriter can't delete files in use by the current IndexReader
> (like it can in UNIX) when the commit is done.
> If you make further changes to the index and do a commit, you should
> see the space go down.
>
> -Yonik
> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>
>
I am on Windows. Would a DataImportHandler delta-import with 1 or more
changes be a sufficient change to allow the files to be deleted?
Mark
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