Not directly in your subject but you could look at this patch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6841 it implements visualization of solr(lucene) segments with exact information of how much deletions are present in each segment. Looking at this one you could - of course next time - react little bit earlier.
2015-01-11 7:46 GMT+01:00 ig01 <inna.gel...@elbitsystems.com>: > Thank you all for your response, > The thing is that we have 180G index while half of it are deleted > documents. > We tried to run an optimization in order to shrink index size but it > crashes on ‘out of memory’ when the process reaches 120G. > Is it possible to optimize parts of the index? > Please advise what can we do in this situation. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Frequent-deletions-tp4176689p4178700.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Michał Bieńkowski