Right. I knew I could force a merge. Data is constantly being added to this database. I expected it to merge automatically at some point.
I rarely if ever do an update. Almost everything is insertion of new data. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Damon Feldman <[email protected] > wrote: > Alex,**** > > ** ** > > Merges are only triggered by document updates, so when you start adding or > changing data the system will check merge policies and decide if it should > merge or not. In the meantime you can force a merge for the entire database > or particular forests on the admin GUI.**** > > ** ** > > Yours,**** > > Damon**** > > ** ** > > --**** > > Damon Feldman**** > > Sr. Principal Consultant, MarkLogic**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Alex Milowski > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:16 PM > *To:* General Mark Logic Developer Discussion > *Subject:* [MarkLogic Dev General] Merge Policy / Large Delete**** > > ** ** > > After deleting a large amount of content, I have large forests (100+GB) on > disk with large amounts deleted fragments (60+ GB). I didn't notice any > merging going on and I expected this to clear itself up eventually.**** > > ** ** > > After waiting for quite awhile (many days), it didn't do anything by > itself. **** > > ** ** > > The merge policy for the database is:**** > > ** ** > > merge priority = lower, max size = 0, min size = 1024, min ration = 2, > timestamp = 0**** > > ** ** > > The database has three forests that are roughly balanced. As such, there > is 180GB of deleted fragments.**** > > ** ** > > I've gone in a manually requested the forests to merge, doing them one at > a time.**** > > ** ** > > Is there a reason why the merge didn't happen all by itself? > **** > > ** ** > > -- > --Alex Milowski > "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the > inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language > considered." > > Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics **** > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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