Will delete holds last forever even new documents keep in?

since segments won't be merged when they achieve certain size.
so if I delete documents in those segments, so it will be last forever, even new documents keep in?

Those "too large to be merged" segments will become eligible for merging once >= 50% of their documents are deleted.

Mike McCandless

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is any place to config this 50% or is it just hard code in lucene?

It's hard coded.

Mike McCandless

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