For what it's worth, the Solr class instructor at the Lucene Revolution conference recommended *against* optimizing, and instead suggested to just let the merge factor do it's job.
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 11/4/2010 7:22 AM, stockiii wrote: > >> how can i start an optimize by using DIH, but NOT after an delta- or >> full-import ? >> > > I'm not aware of a way to do this with DIH, though there might be something > I'm not aware of. You can do it with an HTTP POST. Here's how to do it > with curl: > > /usr/bin/curl "http://HOST:PORT/solr/CORE/update" \ > -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \ > --data-binary '<optimize waitFlush="true" waitSearcher="true"/>' > > Shawn > >