Hi, I used delete_by_query API to delete multiple documents and after that _forcemerge API to remove deleted documents. However, when I use _forcemerge API it finishes instantly and disk usage is the same. Why my API call doesn't do anything and how can I debug reasons for such behavior? I tried t…

OK, so then the index should take up relatively little space per node. When I have used it I think I have invoked it like this: curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/indexname/_forcemerge?max_num_segments=1" Could you try that and see if that makes any difference?

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Delete_by_query & _forcemerge doesn't free disk space

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Christian_Dahlqvist (Christian Dahlqvist) April 25, 2018, 6:59am 6

How many nodes do you have in the cluster?

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