Does it really matter what values we set in refresh_interval for a read-only index? I'm re-indexing a huge index that contains legacy data and is never updated i.e read-only (RO). Before re-indexing, in order to boost performance I'm setting "refresh_interval": -1. Once re-indexing is over, it is n…

Refresh Interval Value for Read-only index

dadoonet (David Pilato) July 4, 2019, 10:21pm 2

You can also keep it to -1 and call the refresh API explicitly.

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