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				|  |  |  curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test1,test2/_segments'
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				|  |  |  curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_segments'
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				|  |  |  --------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +Response:
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +[source,js]
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				|  |  | +--------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +{
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				|  |  | +    ...
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				|  |  | +        "_3": {
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				|  |  | +            "generation": 3,
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				|  |  | +            "num_docs": 1121,
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				|  |  | +            "deleted_docs": 53,
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				|  |  | +            "size_in_bytes": 228288,
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				|  |  | +            "memory_in_bytes": 3211,
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				|  |  | +            "committed": true,
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				|  |  | +            "search": true,
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				|  |  | +            "version": "4.6",
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				|  |  | +            "compound": true
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				|  |  | +        }
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				|  |  | +    ...
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				|  |  | +}
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				|  |  | +--------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +_0::         The key of the JSON document is the name of the segment. This name
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				|  |  | +             is used to generate file names: all files starting with this
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				|  |  | +             segment name in the directory of the shard belong to this segment.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +generation:: A generation number that is basically incremented when needing to
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				|  |  | +             write a new segment. The segment name is derived from this
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				|  |  | +             generation number.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +num_docs::   The number of non-deleted documents that are stored in this segment.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +deleted_docs:: The number of deleted documents that are stored in this segment.
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				|  |  | +             It is perfectly fine if this number is greater than 0, space is
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				|  |  | +             going to be reclaimed when this segment gets merged.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +size_in_bytes:: The amount of disk space that this segment uses, in bytes.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +memory_in_bytes:: Segments need to store some data into memory in order to be
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				|  |  | +             searchable efficiently. This number returns the number of bytes
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				|  |  | +             that are used for that purpose. A value of -1 indicates that
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				|  |  | +             Elasticsearch was not able to compute this number.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +committed::  Whether the segment has been sync'ed on disk. Segments that are
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				|  |  | +             committed would survive a hard reboot. No need to worry in case
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				|  |  | +             of false, the data from uncommitted segments is also stored in
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				|  |  | +             the transaction log so that Elasticsearch is able to replay
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				|  |  | +             changes on the next start.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +search::     Whether the segment is searchable. A value of false would most
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				|  |  | +             likely mean that the segment has been written to disk but no
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				|  |  | +             refresh occurred since then to make it searchable.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +version::    The version of Lucene that has been used to write this segment.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +compound::   Whether the segment is stored in a compound file. When true, this
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				|  |  | +             means that Lucene merged all files from the segment in a single
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				|  |  | +             one in order to save file descriptors.
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