On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Phillip Farber <pfar...@umich.edu> wrote: > Wow, this is weird. I commit before I optimize. In fact, I bounce tomcat > before I optimize just in case. It makse sense, as you say, that then "the > open reader can only be holding references to segments that wouldn't be > deleted until the optimize is complete anyway". > > But we're still exceeding 2x.
How much over 2x? It is possible (though relatively rare) for an optimized index to be larger than a non-optimized index. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
