: http://code.google.com/p/solr-geonames/wiki/DeveloperInstall : "It's worth noting that the build has also been run on Mac and Solaris now, : and the Solr index is about half the size. We suspect the optimize() call in : Embedded Solr is not working correctly under Windows." : : We've observed that Windows leaves lots of segments on disk and takes up : twice the volume as the other OSs. Perhaps file locking or something
The problem isn't that "optimize" doesn't work on windows, the problem is that windows file semantics won't let files be deleted while there are open file handles -- so Lucene's Directory behavior is to leave the files on disk, and try to clean them up later. (on the next write, or next optimize call) -Hoss
