: > I want to understand why 13 segments are created in my index?? : > Could appreciate if i can get response ASAP
: Imagine the following scenario. You start from a clean index and do FWIW: the TL;DR of Shawn's response can be seen in this animation of how Log based MergePolicy's work in the simplest scenerios... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW0bOvLp72E More animations of other scnerioes and other MergePolicies can be found here... http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/02/visualizing-lucenes-segment-merges.html -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
