Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jackrabbit-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 59416 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2009 08:38:00 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Jun 2009 08:38:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 9880 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jun 2009 08:38:11 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jackrabbit-users-archive@jackrabbit.apache.org Received: (qmail 9857 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jun 2009 08:38:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@jackrabbit.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list users@jackrabbit.apache.org Received: (qmail 9846 invoked by uid 99); 8 Jun 2009 08:38:11 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:38:11 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of mreutegg@day.com designates 207.126.148.183 as permitted sender) Received: from [207.126.148.183] (HELO eu3sys201aog003.obsmtp.com) (207.126.148.183) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:38:01 +0000 Received: from source ([209.85.220.209]) by eu3sys201aob003.postini.com ([207.126.154.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKSizN1FIisclE3ilJIXv0pAO95U/9JkUM@postini.com; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:37:41 UTC Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so2836749fxm.29 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:37:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: mreutegg@day.com Received: by 10.204.120.70 with SMTP id c6mr6446379bkr.144.1244450259830; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:37:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <000001c9e778$7bd5c9f0$73815dd0$@co.uk> References: <000001c9e778$7bd5c9f0$73815dd0$@co.uk> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:37:39 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 79933363f29b6bf5 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Should Lucene index file size reduce when items are deleted? From: Marcel Reutegger To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Hi, On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 16:01, Shaun Barriball wrote: > When deleting say 25% of the items =A0should we expect the size of the Lu= cene > 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