The Definitive Guide says: Small segments are merged into bigger segments, which, in turn, are merged into even bigger segments. Because my cluster has a lot of index,so there are a lot of segments,every segment consumes file handles, memory, and CPU cycles,so the usage of heap size always over …

Set the min size of a segment?

Ravi_Shanker_Reddy (Ravi Shanker Reddy) November 25, 2016, 4:26am 2

How's your index named? If it is based on dates close the indexes which is older and not used for searching.

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Set the min size of a segment?

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