Does your schema have a unique id specified? If so, is it possible that you indexed many documents that had the same ID, thus deleting previous documents with the same ID? That would account for it, but it's a shot in the dark...
Best Erick On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Karthik K <karthikkato...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot for the reply, > is it independent of merge factor?? > My index size reduced a lot (almost by 40%) after optimization and i am > worried that i might have lost the data. I have no deletes at all but a > high > merge factor. Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Karthik >