Efficient delete

Dear List, I have a rather big index around 20gb. My documents have a unique id that I store in in an untokenized field. Using an IndexReader I delete documents by term using the id. The applications tries to batch as many delete operations as possible for this. The applications runs on a 8Core

Re: Efficient delete

t;> don't believe that would explain the difference. All the deletes were >> done in one batch using lucene 2.3.2. >> >> Is there a lot of other concurrent activity on the index? On the >> server? Is it CPU or IO bound? >> >> >> -- >> I