Ahh, thanks. I might try a basic commit() then and see, although it's not a huge deal for me. It occurred to me that two optimize() calls would probably leave exactly the same problem behind.
On 20 May 2011 09:52, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : Thanks for the reply. I'm at home right now, or I'd try this myself, but > is > : the suggestion that two optimize() calls in a row would resolve the > issue? > > it might ... I think the situations in which it happens have evolved a bit > over the years as IndexWRiter has gotten smarter about knowing when it > really needs to touch the disk to reduce IO. > > there's a relatively new explicit method (IndexWriter.deleteUnusedFiles) > that can force this... > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2259 > > ...but it's only on trunk, and there isn't any user level hook for it in > Solr yet (i opened SOLR-2532 to consider adding it) > > > -Hoss >
