Ah, OK. It's late on Friday and I missed that.... Erick
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On July 11, 2014 at 6:10:07 PM, Erick Erickson ([email protected]) > wrote: >> > bq: I think you would probably want to control the number of segments >> with the MapReduceIndexerTool before doing the merge initially >> >> This isn't the nub of the issue. > > The rest of the sentence is required: > > , and if you find you have too many segments over time as you add more and > more data, use a force merge call to reduce the number segments, either > manually or scheduled. > >>Of course one work-around is to periodically issue an optimize even >>though Uwe cringes every time that gets mentioned ;) > > You don’t need a full optimize, you just need to occasionally force merge > down to N segments. You could trigger it after running the mapreduce tool, > chron could trigger it, or whatever. > > That’s how you have to handle it currently. > > -- > Mark Miller > about.me/markrmiller > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
