This is a known issue in 1.4 especially in Windows. Some of it was resolved in 3x.
Bill Bell Sent from mobile On May 14, 2012, at 5:54 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmm, replication will require up to twice the space of the > index _temporarily_, just checking if that's what you're seeing.... > But that should go away reasonably soon. Out of curiosity, what > happens if you restart your server, do the extra files go away? > > But it sounds like your index is growing over a longer period of time > than just a single replication, is that true? > > Best > Erick > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Jasper Floor <jasper.fl...@m4n.nl> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Otis Gospodnetic >> <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hi Jasper, >> >> Sorry, I should've added more technical info wihtout being prompted. >> >>> Solr does handle that for you. Some more stuff to share: >>> >>> * Solr version? >> >> 1.4 >> >>> * JVM version? >> 1.7 update 2 >> >>> * OS? >> Debian (2.6.32-5-xen-amd64) >> >>> * Java replication? >> yes >> >>> * Errors in Solr logs? >> no >> >>> * deletion policy section in solrconfig.xml? >> missing I would say, but I don't see this on the replication wiki page. >> >> This is what we have configured for replication: >> >> <requestHandler name="/replication" class="solr.ReplicationHandler" > >> <lst name="slave"> >> >> <str >> name="masterUrl">${solr.master.url}/df-stream-store/replication</str> >> >> <str name="pollInterval">00:20:00</str> >> <str name="compression">internal</str> >> <str name="httpConnTimeout">5000</str> >> <str name="httpReadTimeout">10000</str> >> >> </lst> >> </requestHandler> >> >> We will be updating to 3.6 fairly soon however. To be honest, from >> what I've read, the Solr cloud is what we really want in the future >> but we will have to be patient for that. >> >> thanks in advance >> >> mvg, >> Jasper >> >>> You may also want to look at your Index report in SPM >>> (http://sematext.com/spm) before/during/after replication and share what >>> you see. >>> >>> Otis >>> ---- >>> Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - >>> http://sematext.com/spm >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: Jasper Floor <jasper.fl...@m4n.nl> >>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>>> Cc: >>>> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:08 AM >>>> Subject: slave index not cleaned >>>> >>>> Perhaps I am missing the obvious but our slaves tend to run out of >>>> disk space. The index sizes grow to multiple times the size of the >>>> master. So I just toss all the data and trigger a replication. >>>> However, can't solr handle this for me? >>>> >>>> I'm sorry if I've missed a simple setting which does this for me, but >>>> if its there then I have missed it. >>>> >>>> mvg >>>> Jasper >>>>