Ideal setting for index.merge.policy.reclaim_deletes_weight

[mosiddi (Imran Siddique)]

Continuing the discussion from Recommended Merge Option:

@mosiddi

Guys,
In a system where u could expect a decent rate of update request, say 10% of overall documents getting updated daily, what is the merge setting for -

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index.merge.policy.reclaim_deletes_weight

one would recommend so we have the deleted document count very much under control. We have seen in cases, the deleted document count goes up to 30% and stays there. We end up doing periodic expunge delete.

What if say 5.0? Anyone has already experience with this one? OR shud I do experiment and find out.

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Please keep it to the one thread - Recommended Merge Option