This is correct. And there is no way I can think of optimize could just start on its own - somebody or something called it.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ >________________________________ >From: Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> >To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 11:38 PM >Subject: Re: Anyway to stop an optimize? > >A restart during an optimize should not cause index corruption. The optimize >only reads existing indexes, and the only writes are to indexes not yet in >use. If it does not finish, those half-written indexes are junk to be cleaned >up later. > >wunder > >On Nov 9, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Brendan Grainger wrote: > >> I think in the past I've tried that, and it has restarted, although I will >> have to try it out (this time we were loath to stop it as we didn't want any >> index corruption issues). >> >> A related question is, why did the optimize start? I thought it had to be >> explicitly started, but somehow it started optimzing on it's own. >> >> Thanks again >> Brendan >> >> On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: >> >>> If you restart the server, the optimize should stop and not restart, right? >>> >>> wunder >>> >>> On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: >>> >>>> Don't think so, at least not gracefully. You can always do partial >>>> optimize and do a few of them if you want to optimize in smaller steps. >>>> >>>> Otis >>>> >>>> >>>>> ________________________________ >>>>> From: Brendan Grainger <brendan.grain...@gmail.com> >>>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:35 PM >>>>> Subject: Anyway to stop an optimize? >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know if an optimize can be stopped once started? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> >>> > > > > > > >