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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1634:
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bq. say the index has 10 segments, and optmize(6) is called, Lucene finds 4
smallest segments by number of bytes in the segment files.
Oh yeah, you're right: for the last (partial) merge, it uses the size() of the
segments to pick the merge that's minimal total size.
So let's proceed with this patch, once you've added setter/getter.
I'd still love to see a merge policy that does a better job explicitly
"targeting" segments with lots of deletions.
> LogMergePolicy should use the number of deleted docs when deciding which
> segments to merge
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> Key: LUCENE-1634
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1634
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Reporter: Yasuhiro Matsuda
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.9
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> Attachments: LUCENE-1634.patch
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> I found that IndexWriter.optimize(int) method does not pick up large segments
> with a lot of deletes even when most of the docs are deleted. And the
> existence of such segments affected the query performance significantly.
> I created an index with 1 million docs, then went over all docs and updated a
> few thousand at a time. I ran optimize(20) occasionally. What saw were large
> segments with most of docs deleted. Although these segments did not have
> valid docs they remained in the directory for a very long time until more
> segments with comparable or bigger sizes were created.
> This is because LogMergePolicy.findMergeForOptimize uses the size of segments
> but does not take the number of deleted documents into consideration when it
> decides which segments to merge. So, a simple fix is to use the delete count
> to calibrate the segment size. I can create a patch for this.
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