Forgot to mention - I do understand that it is not healthy to run Solr in a context where it fills disk, or nearly fills disk. Solr needs available disk to perform optimization/merge processes...
For now, simply trying to understand what is freeing up this space on restart. On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 2:04 PM mtn search <search...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed that after restarting a Solr instance (particularly when > the disk storing the index has filled up) that more disk space is > available. > > I am familiar with the Solr merge process, but understand that it removes > deleted docs in the background while Solr is running. > > What is going on for files to be removed on a Solr restart (after the disk > is full)? > > Thanks, > Matt >