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ASF subversion and git services commented on LUCENE-8962:
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Commit f017ae465ec416b9cf5ac91f9aa12ff71abd7de0 in lucene-solr's branch 
refs/heads/master from msfroh
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=lucene-solr.git;h=f017ae4 ]

LUCENE-8962: Fix intermittent test failures (#1307)

1. TestIndexWriterMergePolicy.testMergeOnCommit will fail if the last
   commit (the one that should trigger the full merge) doesn't have any
   pending changes (which could occur if the last indexing thread
   commits at the end). We can fix that by adding one more document
   before that commit.
2. The previous implementation was throwing IOException if the commit
   thread gets interrupted while waiting for merges to complete. This
   violates IndexWriter's documented behavior of throwing
   ThreadInterruptedException.

> Can we merge small segments during refresh, for faster searching?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-8962
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8962
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/index
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: LUCENE-8962_demo.png
>
>          Time Spent: 6h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> With near-real-time search we ask {{IndexWriter}} to write all in-memory 
> segments to disk and open an {{IndexReader}} to search them, and this is 
> typically a quick operation.
> However, when you use many threads for concurrent indexing, {{IndexWriter}} 
> will accumulate write many small segments during {{refresh}} and this then 
> adds search-time cost as searching must visit all of these tiny segments.
> The merge policy would normally quickly coalesce these small segments if 
> given a little time ... so, could we somehow improve {{IndexWriter'}}s 
> refresh to optionally kick off merge policy to merge segments below some 
> threshold before opening the near-real-time reader?  It'd be a bit tricky 
> because while we are waiting for merges, indexing may continue, and new 
> segments may be flushed, but those new segments shouldn't be included in the 
> point-in-time segments returned by refresh ...
> One could almost do this on top of Lucene today, with a custom merge policy, 
> and some hackity logic to have the merge policy target small segments just 
> written by refresh, but it's tricky to then open a near-real-time reader, 
> excluding newly flushed but including newly merged segments since the refresh 
> originally finished ...
> I'm not yet sure how best to solve this, so I wanted to open an issue for 
> discussion!



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