I think in the past I've tried that, and it has restarted, although I will have to try it out (this time we were loath to stop it as we didn't want any index corruption issues).
A related question is, why did the optimize start? I thought it had to be explicitly started, but somehow it started optimzing on it's own. Thanks again Brendan On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: > If you restart the server, the optimize should stop and not restart, right? > > wunder > > On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > >> Don't think so, at least not gracefully. You can always do partial optimize >> and do a few of them if you want to optimize in smaller steps. >> >> Otis >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Brendan Grainger <brendan.grain...@gmail.com> >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:35 PM >>> Subject: Anyway to stop an optimize? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone know if an optimize can be stopped once started? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> > > > >