To maybe answer another one of my questions about the 50Gb recovered when running:
curl ' http://localhost:8983/solr/update?optimize=true&maxSegments=10&waitFlush=false ' It looks to me that it was from deleted docs being completely removed from the index. Thanks On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Brendan Grainger < brendan.grain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I guess I can answer one of my questions which I didn't exactly > explicitly state, which is: how do I force solr to merge segments to a > given maximum. I forgot about doing this: > > curl ' > http://localhost:8983/solr/update?optimize=true&maxSegments=10&waitFlush=false > ' > > which reduced the number of segments in my index from 12 to 10. Amazingly, > it also reduced the space used by almost 50Gb. Is that even possible? > > Thanks again > Brendan > > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Brendan Grainger < > brendan.grain...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> First of all, what I was actually trying to do is actually get a little >> space back. So if there is a better way to do this by adjusting the >> MergePolicy or something else please let me know. My index is currently >> 200Gb. In the past (Solr 1.4) we've found that optimizing the index will >> double the size of the index temporarily then usually when it's done we end >> up with a smaller index and slightly faster search query times. >> >> Should I even bother optimizing? My impression was that with the >> TieredMergePolicy this would be less necessary. Would merging segments into >> larger ones save any space and if so is there a way to tell solr to do that? >> >> Thanks >> Brendan >> > > > > -- > Brendan Grainger > www.kuripai.com > -- Brendan Grainger www.kuripai.com
