Thanks, does it matter that we are also updates to documents at various times? Do the deleted documents get removed when doing a merge or does that only get done on an optimize?
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > Don't. "Optimize" is a poorly-chosen name for a full merge. It doesn't make > that much difference and there is almost never a need to do it on a periodic > basis. > > The full merge will mean a longer time between the commit and the time that > the data is first searchable. Do the commit, then search. > > wunder > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Jamie Johnson wrote: > >> What is the best way to periodically optimize a Solr index? I've seen >> a few places where this is done from a CRON job, but I wanted to know >> if there are any other techniques that are used in practice for doing >> this. My use case is that we generally load a large corpus of data up >> front and then information trickle's in after that, but we want this >> information to be available for search within a reasonable amount of >> time (say 10 minutes). I believe that the CRON job would probably >> suffice but if there are any other thoughts/suggestions I'd be >> interested to hear them. > > > > >
