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Explicitly recommend to forceMerge before freezing (elastic#36376)
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given the benchmark results on elastic#34352 it's important to recommend
users to `_force_merge` their indices to a single segment before freezing.
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s1monw committed Dec 7, 2018
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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>>.

It's highly recommended to <<indices-forcemerge,`_forcemerge`>> your indices prior to freezing to ensure that each shard has only a single
segment on disk. This not only provides much better compression but also simplifies the data structures needed to service aggregation
or sorted search requests.

[source,js]
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POST /twitter/_forcemerge?max_num_segments=1
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:twitter]

== Searching a frozen index

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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