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Adrien Grand commented on LUCENE-8688:
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bq. otherwise the case of merging from a single segments with deletes to a
single segment becomes a NOOP when before we'd merge here in any case and
expunge the deletes which I guess we want to keep?
I think so.
> Forced merges merge more than necessary
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> Key: LUCENE-8688
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8688
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-8688.patch, LUCENE-8688.patch, LUCENE-8688.patch,
> LUCENE-8688.patch
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> A user reported some surprise after the upgrade to Lucene 7.5 due to changes
> to how forced merges are selected when maxSegmentCount is greater than 1.
> Before 7.5 forceMerge used to pick up the least amount of merging that would
> result in an index that has maxSegmentCount segments at most. Now that we
> share the same logic as regular merges, we are almost sure to pick a
> maxMergeAtOnceExplicit-segments merge (30 segments) given that merges that
> have more segments usually score better. This is due to the fact that natural
> merges assume that merges that run now save work for later, so the more
> segments get merged, the better. This assumption doesn't hold for forced
> merges that should run on read-only indices, so there won't be any future
> merging.
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