Hi, On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 16:01, Shaun Barriball <[email protected]> wrote: > When deleting say 25% of the items should we expect the size of the Lucene > indexes to reduce by a similar amount?
over time you will see a reduction of the index size, but not immediately. nodes in the index are not immediately removed when they are updated or deleted. they are only marked as deleted and later disk space is freed when index segments with nodes marked as deleted are merged. regards marcel
