Yes, this is very strange. My bet: you have something custom, a setting, indexing code, whatever that is getting in the way.
Second possibility (really stretching here): your merge settings are set to 10 segments having to exist before merging and somehow not all the docs in the segments are replaced. So until you get to the 10th re-index (and assuming a single segment is produced per re-index) the older segments aren't merged. If that were the case I'd expect to see the number of deleted docs drop back periodically then build up again. A real shot in the dark. One way to test this would be to specify "segmentsPerTier" of, say, 2 rather than the default 10, see: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/IndexConfig+in+SolrConfig If this were the case I'd expect with a setting of 2 that your index might have 50% deleted docs, that would at least tell us whether we're on the right track. Take a look at your index on disk. If you're seeing gaps in the numbering, you are getting merging, it may be that they're not happening very often. And I take it you have no custom code here and you are doing commits? (hard commits are all that matters for merging, it doesn't matter whether openSearcher is set to true or false). I just tried the "techproducts" example as follows: 1> indexed all the sample files with the bin/solr -e techproducts example 2> started re-indexing the sample docs one at a time with post.jar It took a while, but eventually the original segments got merged away so I doubt it's any weirdness with a small index. Speaking of small index, why are you sharding with only 8K docs? Sharding will probably slow things down for such a small index. This isn't germane to your question though. Best, Erick On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 4/12/2017 5:11 AM, Markus Jelsma wrote: >> One of our 2 shard collections is rather small and gets all its entries >> reindexed every 20 minutes orso. Now i just noticed maxDoc is ten times >> greater than numDoc, the merger is never scheduled but settings are default. >> We just overwrite the existing entries, all of them. >> >> Here are the stats: >> >> Last Modified: 12 minutes ago >> Num Docs: 8336 >> Max Doc: 82362 >> Heap Memory Usage: -1 >> Deleted Docs: 74026 >> Version: 3125 >> Segment Count: 10 > > This discrepancy would typically mean that when you reindex, you're > indexing MOST of the documents, but not ALL of them, so at least one > document is still not deleted in each older segment. When segments have > all their documents deleted, they are automatically removed by Lucene, > but if there's even one document NOT deleted, the segment will remain > until it is merged. > > There's no information here about how large this core is, but unless the > documents are REALLY enormous, I'm betting that an optimize would happen > quickly. With a document count this low and an indexing pattern that > results in such a large maxdoc, this might be a good time to go against > general advice and perform an optimize at least once a day. > > An alternate idea that would not require optimizes: If the intent is to > completely rebuild the index, you might want to consider issuing a > "delete all docs by query" before beginning the indexing process. This > would ensure that none of the previous documents remain. As long as you > don't do a commit that opens a new searcher before the indexing is > complete, clients won't ever know that everything was deleted. > >> This is the config: >> >> <luceneMatchVersion>6.5.0</luceneMatchVersion> >> <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:}</dataDir> >> <directoryFactory name="DirectoryFactory" >> class="${solr.directoryFactory:solr.NRTCachingDirectoryFactory}"/> >> <codecFactory class="solr.SchemaCodecFactory"/> >> <schemaFactory class="ClassicIndexSchemaFactory"/> >> >> <indexConfig> >> <lockType>${solr.lock.type:native}</lockType> >> <infoStream>false</infoStream> >> </indexConfig> >> >> <jmx /> >> >> <updateHandler class="solr.DirectUpdateHandler2"> >> <updateLog> >> <str name="dir">${solr.ulog.dir:}</str> >> </updateLog> >> </updateHandler> > > Side issue: This config is missing autoCommit. You really should have > autoCommit with openSearcher set to false and a maxTime in the > neighborhood of 60000. It goes inside the updateHandler section. This > won't change the maxDoc issue, but because of the other problems it can > prevent, it is strongly recommended. It can be omitted if you are > confident that your indexing code is correctly managing hard commits. > > Thanks, > Shawn >