[LUCENE-764] Document the temporary free space requirements of IndexWriter methods

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: core/index
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 03/Jan/07 19:43
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:33
• Resolved: 05/Jan/07 18:30

Description

Just opening an issue to track fixes to javadocs around Directory
space usage of optimize(), addIndexes, addDocument.

This came out of a recent thread on the users list around unexpectedly
high temporary disk usage during optimize():

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/43475