> I think a good question is whether you are really seeing performance issues > due to the 1/3 deleted- > but-not-yet-reclaimed documents...
No, I'm NOT worried about performance. I've got the message about optimize(). I was just looking for something I might do maybe once or twice a year when the index was off-line or not in heavy use to just get rid of what wasn't needed. It's sort of like cleaning out the reading material piled all over my house. I can still live and entertain, but every now and then its seems good to get rid of the excess clutter and fill the recycling bin and make a run to the used book store. Interesting coincidence, just last night one of our in-house indexes must have decide it could use some merging and dropped 5 segments (of ~30+) and 4-5 GB (of a total ~20-25 GB). So it was great to see it in action. I'm in no hurry, but I'll be eventually looking into using TieredMergePolicy; maybe as I move to 4.0 (I think it becomes the default then). Writing my own merge policy seems a bit further off :-) As usual, thanks for the discussion. -Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
