Good question! The terms in the deleted documents are left behind, and so the relevance behavior will be off. The other space used directly by documents will be reabsorbed. (??)
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jerome L Quinn <jlqu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote on 11/13/2009 11:18:42 PM: > >> The 'maxSegments' feature is new with 1.4. I'm not sure that it will >> cause any less disk I/O during optimize. > > It could still be useful to manage the "too many open files" problem that > rears its ugly head on occasion. > >> The 'mergeFactor=2' idea is not what you think: in this case the index >> is always "mostly optimized", so you never need to run optimize. >> Indexing is always slower, because you amortize the optimize time into >> little continuous chunks during indexing. You never stop indexing. You >> should not lose documents. > > Is the space taken by deleted documents recovered in this case? > > Jerry -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
