I've been indexing live data into a compound index from an MTA. I'm resolving a bunch of problems unrelated to Lucene (disparate hangs in my content handlers). When I get a hang, I typically need to kill my daemon, alas more often than not using kill -9 (SIGKILL).
However, these SIGKILLs are leaving large temporary(?) files, which I guess are non-compound index files transiently extracted from the working .cfs files: -rw-r--r-- 1 373138432 Jun 2 13:42 _18hup.fdt -rw-r--r-- 1 5054464 Jun 2 13:42 _18hup.fdx -rw-r--r-- 1 426 Jun 2 13:42 _18hup.fnm -rw-r--r-- 1 457253888 Jun 2 09:22 _15djq.fdt -rw-r--r-- 1 6205440 Jun 2 09:22 _15djq.fdx -rw-r--r-- 1 426 Jun 2 09:21 _15djq.fnm They are left intact after restarting my daemon. Presumably they are not treated as being part of the compound index. I see no corresponding .cfs file for them. As a consequence of these - I suspect - I am getting a very large overall disk requirement for my index, presumably because of replicated field data. My guess is that the field data in the orphaned .fdt files needs to be regenerated. In another index directory from a previous test run (again with SIGKILLs), I have 98 GB of index files, with only 12 BG devoted to compound files for the field index (.cfs). The rest of the disk space is used by orphaned uncompounded index files; I see 51 GB devoted to uncompounded field data (.fdt), 13 BG devoted to term positions (.prx) and 13 BG devoted to term frequencies (.frq). Here's my question: How can I attempt to merge these orphaned into the compound index, using IndexWriter.addIndexes(), or would I be foolish attempting this?
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