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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:55:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jason Rutherglen (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (LUCENE-2680) Improve how IndexWriter flushes
 deletes against existing segments
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Jason Rutherglen commented on LUCENE-2680:
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I'm still seeing the error no matter what I do. Sometimes the index is not
optimized, and sometimes there are too many docs. It requires thousands of
iterations to provoke either test error. Perhaps it's simply related to
merges that are scheduled but IW close isn't waiting on properly.

> Improve how IndexWriter flushes deletes against existing segments
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2680
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2680
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch, LUCENE-2680.patch
>
>
> IndexWriter buffers up all deletes (by Term and Query) and only
> applies them if 1) commit or NRT getReader() is called, or 2) a merge
> is about to kickoff.
> We do this because, for a large index, it's very costly to open a
> SegmentReader for every segment in the index.  So we defer as long as
> we can.  We do it just before merge so that the merge can eliminate
> the deleted docs.
> But, most merges are small, yet in a big index we apply deletes to all
> of the segments, which is really very wasteful.
> Instead, we should only apply the buffered deletes to the segments
> that are about to be merged, and keep the buffer around for the
> remaining segments.
> I think it's not so hard to do; we'd have to have generations of
> pending deletions, because the newly merged segment doesn't need the
> same buffered deletions applied again.  So every time a merge kicks
> off, we pinch off the current set of buffered deletions, open a new
> set (the next generation), and record which segment was created as of
> which generation.
> This should be a very sizable gain for large indices that mix
> deletes, though, less so in flex since opening the terms index is much
> faster.

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