On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : The second stage index failed an optimization with a disk full exception > : (I had to move it to another lucene machine with a larger disk partition > : to complete the optimization. Is there a reason why a 22 day index would > : be 10x the size of an 8 day index when the document indexing rate is > : fairly constant? Also, is there a way to shrink the index without > : regenerating it? > > did you run CheckIndex after it failed to optimize the first time? the > failure may have left old temp files arround that aren't actually part of > the index but are taking up space. > > (Actually: does CheckIndex warn about unused files in the index directory > so people can clean them up? i'm not sure)
Actually, it doesn't (it only checks the "live" index files). But: IndexWriter will remove unreferenced files as soon as it's instantiated. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
