Thanks Marcel. >From a performance and memory usage perspective, should we see the benefits of the deletion immediately or is the Lucene performance linked to the index file sizes (and therefore reliant on the merge happening)?
Regards, Shaun -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcel Reutegger Sent: 08 June 2009 09:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Should Lucene index file size reduce when items are deleted? 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
