Shard Lucene segments single threaded?

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I am just curious, I know a search on 5 shards take 5 Java threads, but if each shard have 10 segments:

  1. Each segments are searched synchronously ? (mean the more segments the longer is the search)
  2. Each segments are search in parallel ?

Thanks you,

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Answer is 1. That's why having only one segment for a stable index is better.

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