Yes. I believe the "is the index already optimized" is in the guts of Lucene.
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: William Pierce <evalsi...@hotmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 1:05:52 PM > Subject: Is <optimize /> optimized? > > Folks: > > If I issue two requests with no intervening changes to the index, > will the second optimize request be smart enough to not do anything? > > Thanks, > > Bill