Do you need to call forceMerge(1) at all? The javadoc, certainly for recent versions of lucene, advises against it. What version of lucene are you running?
It might be helpful to run lsof against the index directory before/during/after the merge to see what files are coming or going, or if there are any marked as deleted but still present. That would imply that something, somewhere, was holding on to the files. -- Ian. On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Jürgen Albert <j.alb...@data-in-motion.biz> wrote: > Hi, > > because we have constant updates on our index, we can't really close the > index from time to time. Therefore we decided to trigger forceMerge when > the traffic is lowest, the clean up. > > On our development laptops (Windows and Linux) it works as expected, but on > the real Servers we have some wired behaviour. > > Scenario: > > We create a fresh index and populate it. This results in an index with a > size of 2 GB. If we rigger forceMerge(1) and a commit() afterwards for this > index, the index grows over the next 10 minutes to 6 GB and does not shrink > back. During the whole process no reader is opened on the index. > If I try the same stunt with the same data on my Windows Laptop, it does > nothing at all and finishes after a few ms. > > Any Ideas? > > Technical details: > We use an MMapDirectory and the Server is a Debian7 Kernel 3.2 in a KVM. The > file system is Ext4. > > Thx, > > Jürgen Albert. > > -- > Jürgen Albert > Geschäftsführer > > Data In Motion UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > > Kahlaische Str. 4 > 07745 Jena > > Mobil: 0157-72521634 > E-Mail: j.alb...@datainmotion.de > Web: www.datainmotion.de > > XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Juergen_Albert5 > > Rechtliches > > Jena HBR 507027 > USt-IdNr: DE274553639 > St.Nr.: 162/107/04586 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org