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Since indices that are eligible for freezing are unlikely to change in the future, disk space can be optimized as described in <<tune-for-disk-usage>>.
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+It's highly recommended to <<indices-forcemerge,`_forcemerge`>> your indices prior to freezing to ensure that each shard has only a single
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+segment on disk. This not only provides much better compression but also simplifies the data structures needed to service aggregation
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+or sorted search requests.
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+[source,js]
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+--------------------------------------------------
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+POST /twitter/_forcemerge?max_num_segments=1
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+--------------------------------------------------
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+// CONSOLE
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+// TEST[setup:twitter]
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== Searching a frozen index
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Frozen indices are throttled in order to limit memory consumptions per node. The number of concurrently loaded frozen indices per node is
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