Restrict num of segments per index

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi,

I recently upgrade to elastic search 1.7.5 and I want to restrict the number of segments per index. By default 20 segments (approx.) get created and it increases the response time of search requests to 40-50 ms.

I use optimize to reduce the number of segments to 1 and then the response time is < 10 ms.

I tried to update the index settings to set index.merge.policy.segments_per_tier=3 but it did not reduce the number of segments.

Any help in the same would be appreciated.

Regards,
Deep

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You cannot do this.