You might try merging the existing index into a new index located on a ram disk. Once it is done, you can move the directory from ram disk back to your hard disk. I think this will work as long as the old index did not finish merging. You might do a "strings" command on the segments file to make sure the new (merged) segment is not in there, and if there's a "deletable" file, make sure there are no segments from the old index listed therein.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin A. Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:02 PM Subject: Way to repair an index broking during 1/2 optimize? > So.. the other day I sent an email about building an index with 14M > documents. > > That went well but the optimize() was taking FOREVER. It took 7 hours > to generate the whole index and when complete as of 10AM it was still > optimizing (6 hours later) and I needed the box back. > > So is it possible to fix this index now? Can I just delete the most > recent segment that was created? I can find this by ls -alt > > Also... what can I do to speed up this optimize? Ideally it wouldn't > take 6 hours. > > Kevin > > -- > > Please reply using PGP. > > http://peerfear.org/pubkey.asc > > NewsMonster - http://www.newsmonster.org/ > > Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 > AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ > GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412 > IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
