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Michael Busch commented on LUCENE-982:
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I think people optimize because they want to pay a high cost, once,
now, in order to have fast[er] searches. So by limiting segment count
during optimizing, we still leave the increasing cost (as your index
grows) on the optimize() call.
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Yeah good point. I understand the usecase for maxNumSegments.
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I think we should eventually do both?
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+1
> Create new method optimize(int maxNumSegments) in IndexWriter
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> Key: LUCENE-982
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-982
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.3
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> Attachments: LUCENE-982.patch
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> Spinning this out from the discussion in LUCENE-847.
> I think having a way to "slightly optimize" your index would be useful
> for many applications.
> The current optimize() call is very expensive for large indices
> because it always optimizes fully down to 1 segment. If we add a new
> method which instead is allowed to stop optimizing once it has <=
> maxNumSegments segments in the index, this would allow applications to
> eg optimize down to say <= 10 segments after doing a bunch of updates.
> This should be a nice compromise of gaining good speedups of searching
> while not spending the full (and typically very high) cost of
> optimizing down to a single segment.
> Since LUCENE-847 is now formalizing an API for decoupling merge policy
> from IndexWriter, if we want to add this new optimize method we need
> to take it into account in LUCENE-847.
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