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Adrien Grand commented on LUCENE-8688: -------------------------------------- [~erickerickson] This seems to have been introduced in LUCENE-7976, do you have any opinion on this? > Forced merges merge more than necessary > --------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-8688 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8688 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Adrien Grand > Priority: Minor > > A user reported some surprise after the upgrade to Lucene 7.5 due to changes > to how forced merges are selected when maxSegmentCount is greater than 1. > Before 7.5 forceMerge used to pick up the least amount of merging that would > result in an index that has maxSegmentCount segments at most. Now that we > share the same logic as regular merges, we are almost sure to pick a > maxMergeAtOnceExplicit-segments merge (30 segments) given that merges that > have more segments usually score better. This is due to the fact that natural > merges assume that merges that run now save work for later, so the more > segments get merged, the better. This assumption doesn't hold for forced > merges that should run on read-only indices, so there won't be any future > merging. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org