If there are 59 news items, the last merged indexing files should be
[tier_5_A, tier_2_A, tier_1_A]
"B" file will never appear, because once it appears, it is merged.
tier_1_A=1 file
tier_2_A=2 files
tier_5_A=16 files
(16+2+1)*3 =57
57+2(still in the memory) = 59
(
Edited: 2020-11-16)
If there are 59 news items, the last merged indexing files should be
[tier_5_A, tier_2_A, tier_1_A]
"B" file will never appear, because once it appears, it is merged.
tier_1_A=1 file
tier_2_A=2 files
tier_5_A=16 files
(16+2+1)*3 =57
57+2(still in the memory) = 59