Re: 'deletable' indexing files are not deleted on RHEL5

2008-07-08 Thread Erick Erickson
Assuming your indexing completes, after the whole thing is done and the process terminates, what is the size of your index? Is it possible that your old box had lots more disk space and you just never noticed the (perhaps temporary) disk space usage? Best Erick 2008/7/8 Zhou Lin Dai <[EMAIL PROT

Re: 'deletable' indexing files are not deleted on RHEL5

2008-07-08 Thread Michael McCandless
What do you mean by "deletable" indexing files? Moving to RHEL5 should have no effect (vs other platforms) on how much disk space is used. However, Lucene's disk usage can be surprising. While merging segments it will temporarily require free space equal to the size of the resulting mer