Hi, I don't remember last time I ran optimize. Sure, yes, things will work faster if you optimize an index and reduce the number of segments, but if you are regularly writing to that index and performance is OK, leave it to Lucene segment merges to purge deletes.
Otis -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Joshi, Shital <shital.jo...@gs.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have SolrCloud cluster (5 shards and 2 replicas) on 10 boxes. On some > of the boxes we have about 5 million deleted docs and we have never run > optimization since beginning. Does number of deleted docs have anything to > do with performance of query? Should we consider optimization at all if > we're not worried about disk space? > > Thanks! > > >