optimize will generate new segments and delete old ones. if your master also provides searching service during indexing, the old files may be opened by old SolrIndexSearcher. they will be deleted later. So when indexing, the index size may double. But a moment later, old indexes will be deleted.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Mike Austin <mike.aus...@juggle.com> wrote: > I have a master with two slaves. For some reason on the master if I do an > optimize after indexing on the master it double in size from 42meg to 90 > meg.. however, when the slaves replicate they get the 42meg index.. > > Should the master and slaves always be the same size? > > Thanks, > Mike >
