I'm SURE there is a cleaner way, but in the past, we read the segments file (manually :( ), and any file which wasn't listed in there was considered to be a redundant file.
Worked for us. There may be a way to ask a IndexReader which files it's using, and then extrapolate from there, but we were using Lucene.net 1.something, which didn't. I think that's what luke does. Opens the index, asks Lucene whats it's using, kills everything else. -----Original Message----- From: Nitin Shiralkar [mailto:nit...@coreobjects.com] Sent: 13 January 2009 11:26 To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Lucene Scalability Options Hi All, I have started this thread for Lucene scalability aspect. I have an index with 80 GB size. However it looks like many of the segment files are either redundant or unused. Even if I delete them and just retain CFS, segments and deletable files, the index seems to be working fine. However I want to know more cleaner approach to identify such redundant/unused files through APIs. I am able to see these unused files in Luke as "Deletable". However I am not sure how Luke is able to identify unused files. I am using Lucene.NET 2.0 version. Can you please suggest some way? -----Original Message----- From: Granroth, Neal V. [mailto:neal.granr...@thermofisher.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:01 AM To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Lucene Scalability Options Floyd, you will need to provide more details about the specific problems you are encountering. I made a quick check, and have no difficulty opening and inspecting an index I created a few minutes ago with Lucene.NET v2.3.1 using Luke v0.9.1. -- Neal -----Original Message----- From: Floyd Wu [mailto:floyd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:18 PM To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene Scalability Options Hi all, It seems new version of Luke is not compitable with Lucene.net and I've email to the creator of Luke. Below is feedback from him "Yes, there have been many changes, but Lucene 2.4 can still open indexes built with earlier versions of Lucene/Java. This is the second report I've got about the possible incompatibility with Lucene.Net - I suggest to raise up this issue on the Lucene mailing list ( java-...@lucene.apache.org), and provide more details, eg. Lucene.Net revision, stack trace, a small sample index if you can." My original report as below "The situation is Luke-0.9 can not open the index files which built by Lucene.Net-2.3.1. I tried to use older version of Luke and confirm Luke-0.8 and Luke-0.8.1 can open and read index files fine. I wonder if there is any change between java Lucene 2.3 and 2.4. Please help on this." Floyd 2009/1/9 George Aroush <geo...@aroush.net> > Hi Nitin, > > Any optimization that Luke can do on an index is also doable by making API > calls from Lucene.Net. If not, then there is either a bug in Lucene.Net or > in your use of the API. Can you share with us your API calls as well as > the > Lucene.Net version you are using? > > Thanks. > > -- George > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nitin Shiralkar [mailto:nit...@coreobjects.com] > > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:27 AM > > To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Lucene Scalability Options > > > > Thanks Hugh. Yes, I tried using Luke for index optimization. > > Surprisingly, it has brought down the index size to ~20 GB > > with only one CFS and segment files left behind. I used > > compound optimization option. But I use the similar > > "SetUseCompoundFile" property on "IndexModifier" object in my > > Lucene.NET code, but it has no effect on size or files after > > optimization. Any suggestions?? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hugh Spiller [mailto:hugh.spil...@renishaw.com] > > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 3:35 PM > > To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Lucene Scalability Options > > > > Hi Nitin, > > > > I've found the easiest way to get rid of redundant files in > > an index is to use Luke. As soon as you use it to open the > > index, it tidies up all the cruft. > > > > It's at http://www.getopt.org/luke/ . > > > > ________________________________ > > > > Hugh Spiller > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nitin Shiralkar [mailto:nit...@coreobjects.com] > > Sent: 09 January 2009 08:48 > > To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Lucene Scalability Options > > > > -- snip -- > > > > > > Any inputs on junk/redundant files in above list? > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------ > > This email and any attachments are confidential and are for > > the use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, > > you must not use or disclose the contents to any other > > person. Please immediately notify the sender and delete the > > email. Statements and opinions expressed here may not > > represent those of the company. Email correspondence is > > monitored by the company. 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