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document the search context is freed if the scroll is not extended #34739

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document the search context is freed if the scroll is not extended
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion docs/reference/search/request/scroll.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ request) tells Elasticsearch how long it should keep the search context alive.
Its value (e.g. `1m`, see <<time-units>>) does not need to be long enough to
process all data -- it just needs to be long enough to process the previous
batch of results. Each `scroll` request (with the `scroll` parameter) sets a
new expiry time.
new expiry time. If the `scroll` parameter is not passed, then the next
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If a scroll request doesn't pass in scroll then we'll free the scroll context as part of that scroll request. The words you use makes it seem like the next scroll request would free the context.

scroll request will close the search context.

Normally, the background merge process optimizes the
index by merging together smaller segments to create new bigger segments, at
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