My actual code did not call expungeDeletes every time through the loop; however, calling expungeDeletes or optimize after the loop means that the index has doubled in size with all the deleted documents still sitting around. Or is it true that Lucene will try to reclaim disk space? I assume a commit would be required at some point.
----- Original Message ---- From: Anshum <ansh...@gmail.com> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 10:18:36 PM Subject: Re: Wanting batch update to avoid high disk usage Don't bother calling expunge deletes so often, makes no sense. Instead, call it once at the end, though, you are calling the optimize method in the end anyways so should take care of itself. there shouldn't be any difference (but degradation in performance) on adding a call to expungedeletes(). -- Anshum Gupta http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Justin <cry...@yahoo.com> wrote: > In an attempt to avoid doubling disk usage when adding new fields to all > existing documents, I added a call to IndexWriter::expungeDeletes. Then my > colleague pointed out that Lucene will rewrite the potentially large > segment > files each time that method is called. > > > reader = writer.getReader(); > for (int i=0; i<n; i++) { > Term idTerm = new Term("id", i); > TermDocs termDocs = reader.termDocs(idTerm); > if (termDocs != null && termDocs.next()) { > Document doc = reader.document(termDocs.doc()); > doc.add(myfield, value); > writer.updateDocument(idTerm, doc); > //writer.expungeDeletes(true); // BAD: rewrites segment files each > time > } > } > reader.close(); > writer.commit(); > writer.optimize(true); > writer.close(); > > > The following Lucene FAQ response suggests that disk space from deleted > documents will be reclaimed. Is this true and is the savings worthwhile to > update an existing index (followed by optimizing out the deleted documents) > instead of simply creating a new index? > > >http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ#If_I_decide_not_to_optimize_the_index.2C_when_will_the_deleted_documents_actually_get_deleted.3F >F > > > Thanks for your help, > Justin > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
