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Add some information about the impact of index.codec setting. (#110413) (#110466)
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compression ratio, at the expense of slower stored fields performance.
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If you are updating the compression type, the new one will be applied
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after segments are merged. Segment merging can be forced using
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<<indices-forcemerge,force merge>>.
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<<indices-forcemerge,force merge>>. Experiments with indexing log datasets
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have shown that `best_compression` gives up to ~18% lower storage usage
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compared to `default` while only minimally affecting indexing throughput (~2%).
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[[routing-partition-size]] `index.routing_partition_size`::
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