The problem you're at now is that, having run optimize, that single massive segment will accumulate deletes until it has < 2.5G "live" documents. So once you do optimize (and until you get to Solr 7.5), unless you can live with this one segment accumulating deletes for a very long time, you must continue to optimize.
Or you could re-index from scratch if possible and never optimize. Best, Erick On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:28 AM Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > > Don’t optimize. The first article isn’t as clear as it should be. The > important sentence is "Unless you are running into resource problems, it’s > best to leave merging alone.” > > I’ve been running Solr in production since version 1.3, with several > different kinds and sizes of collections. I’ve never run a daily optimize, > even on collections that only change once per day. > > The section titles "What? I can’t afford 50% “wasted” space” should have just > been “Then don’t run Solr”. Really, you should have 100% free sapce, so a 22 > Gb index would be on a volume with 22 Gb of free space. > > It was a mistake to name it “optimize”. It should have been “force merge”. > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > > On Oct 2, 2018, at 6:04 AM, Jeff Courtade <courtadej...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We run an old master/slave solr 4.3.0 solr cluster > > > > 14 nodes 7/7 > > indexes average 47/5 gig per shard around 2 mill docs per shard. > > > > We have constant daily additions and a small amount of deletes. > > > > We optimize nightly currently and it is a system hog. > > > > Is it feasible to never run optimize? > > > > I ask because it seems like it would be very bad not to but this > > information is out there apparently recommending exactly that... never > > optimizing. > > > > https://lucidworks.com/2017/10/13/segment-merging-deleted-documents-optimize-may-bad/ > > > > https://lucidworks.com/2018/06/20/solr-and-optimizing-your-index-take-ii/ > > > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPerformanceFactors#Optimization_Considerations >