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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ This call will block until the merge is complete. If the http connection is
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lost, the request will continue in the background, and any new requests will
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block until the previous force merge is complete.
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- WARNING: Force merge should only be called against *read-only indices *. Running
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- force merge against a read-write index can cause very large segments to be produced
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+ WARNING: Force merge should only be called against indices that will *never be written to again *. Running
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+ force merge against an activly written to index can cause very large segments to be produced
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(>5Gb per segment), and the merge policy will never consider it for merging again until
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it mostly consists of deleted docs. This can cause very large segments to remain in the shards.
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