Yuliya, The index *directory* will be larger *while* you are optimizing. After the optimization is completed successfully, the index directory will be smaller. It is possible that your index directory is large(r) because you have some left-over segments (e.g. from some earlier failed/interrupted optimizations) that are not really a part of the index. After optimizing, you should have only 1 segment, so if you see more than 1 segment, look at the ones with older timestamps. Those can be (re)moved.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Yuliya Palchaninava <y...@solute.de> > To: "java-user@lucene.apache.org" <java-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 11:23:08 AM > Subject: Lucene 2.9 and 3.0: Optimized index is thrice as large as the not > optimized index > > Hi, > > According to the api documentation: "In general, once the optimize completes, > the total size of the index will be less than the size of the starting index. > It > could be quite a bit smaller (if there were many pending deletes) or just > slightly smaller". In our case the index becomes not smaller but larger, > namely > thrice as large. > > The not optimized index doesn't contain compressed fields, what could have > caused the growth of the index due to the otimization. So we cannot explain > what > happens. > > Does someone have an explanation for the index growth due to the optimization? > > Thanks, > Yuliya > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org