On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Jay Hill <jayallenh...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's just that, in a > running system, it's probably very rare that there is only a single segment > for any meaningful length of time.
Right - but the performance impact of a huge merge can be non-trivial. People wishing to avoid the biggest of merges at unpredictable times should look at parameters such as maxMergeDocs that prevent merging segments over a certain size. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
