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Hoss Man commented on SOLR-1691: -------------------------------- I haven't drilled into the Lucene code to see if this would work, but one idea would be to have Solr attempt to do a flush on the currently open IndexWriter in a background thread after any reader is closed. this could be conditional on the OS type, or on a config option, or if there is evidence of deletable files (not sure if it's possible to tell from the Lucene API) > Deal with deleting old index files in Windows auto-magicly > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-1691 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1691 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Hoss Man > > Windows users are frequently confused/frustrated by the size of an index > after making lots of changes/commits because of the way Windows prevents > files with open handles from being deleted. > In Lucene-Java, IndexWriter will attempt to delete any old files whenever it > can, but only on a subsequent change -- we should see if we could add > something to Solr to try and be more proactive about this... > http://old.nabble.com/Delete%2C-commit%2C-optimize-doesn%27t-reduce-index-file-size-to26958067.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.