In 99.9% you should not call optimize api and let elasticsearch/Lucene do it for you when needed.
To answer to your question, yes search and index operations will still possible during that time. -- David ;-) Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 29 mai 2014 à 14:37, Kirill Teplinskiy <[email protected]> a écrit : Hello! Can anyone tell is it safe to call _optimize under normal production work? Will search requests be responded and indexing be performed? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5c75d64c-4fb6-4fe0-aaec-8dc3c5cf68f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/BF20D0F9-0BAA-4A23-9303-0F39F63C1F42%40pilato.fr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
