Skip to content

Commit f9866c0

Browse files
committed
Revert "Update forcemerge.asciidoc"
This reverts commit 4c6c8c0.
1 parent c95e74e commit f9866c0

File tree

1 file changed

+2
-2
lines changed

1 file changed

+2
-2
lines changed

docs/reference/indices/forcemerge.asciidoc

Lines changed: 2 additions & 2 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ This call will block until the merge is complete. If the http connection is
1010
lost, the request will continue in the background, and any new requests will
1111
block until the previous force merge is complete.
1212

13-
WARNING: Force merge should only be called against indices that will *never be written to again*. Running
14-
force merge against an activly written to index can cause very large segments to be produced
13+
WARNING: Force merge should only be called against *read-only indices*. Running
14+
force merge against a read-write index can cause very large segments to be produced
1515
(>5Gb per segment), and the merge policy will never consider it for merging again until
1616
it mostly consists of deleted docs. This can cause very large segments to remain in the shards.
1717

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)