Telling us the version of lucene and the OS you're running on is always a good idea.
A guess here is that you aren't closing index readers, so the JVM will be holding on to deleted files until it exits. A combination of du, ls, and lsof commands should prove it, or just losf: run it against the java process and look for deleted files. If you're on unix that is. -- Ian. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Rob Nikander <rob.nikan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an index that's about 700 MB, and it grows over days to until it > causes problems with disk size, at about 5GB. If the JVM process ends, the > index shrinks back to about 700MB, I'm calling IndexWriter.commit() all the > time. What else do you call to get it to compact it's use of space? > > thank you, > Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
