Hi, That is as expected. When IndexReader or IndexSearcher are open, the snapshot of this index is preserved until you reopen it, as all readers only see the index in the state when it was opened, so disk space is still acquired and on windows you even see the files. For optimize (what you should really do only when you deleted lots of documents) this triples the required space. This is even part of Javadocs.
When you are finished with updating the index you have to reopen your readers. Uwe -- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, 28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de Phil Herold <pher...@d-wise.com> schrieb: New information: it appears that the index size increasing (not always doubling but going up significantly) occurs when I search the index while building it. Calling indexWriter.optimize(1, true); when I'm done adding documents sometimes reduces the index down to size, but not always. Has anyone else seen this?
