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Yonik Seeley commented on SOLR-6810:
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bq. The patch implements this algorithm of course.

Heh.  That was my issue... there was an excellent description of the problem,  
but no high level description of the proposed fix.  IMO, one shouldn't have to 
look at the patch to figure out what it's trying to do.  Perhaps this is what 

Something to keep in mind for future optimizations: If we can use searcher 
leases, we know exactly which documents we need to retrieve from step 2 and can 
pass their ordinals in step 3.  That would appear to represent another very 
large speedup... if you need doc 42 and 77 from a shard, you can get just those 
two docs instead of docs 1 through 77.  

{quote}
>Also, does this patch also improve things if docValues are used for the ID 
>field?
No.
{quote}

Which begs the question: what are the downsides of using docValues for the ID 
field by default, and are those downsides enough to implement this alternate 
merge implementation?  I'm not saying otherwise... just throwing it out there.



> Faster searching limited but high rows across many shards all with many hits
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-6810
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6810
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: search
>            Reporter: Per Steffensen
>            Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
>              Labels: distributed_search, performance
>         Attachments: branch_5x_rev1642874.patch, branch_5x_rev1642874.patch, 
> branch_5x_rev1645549.patch
>
>
> Searching "limited but high rows across many shards all with many hits" is 
> slow
> E.g.
> * Query from outside client: q=something&rows=1000
> * Resulting in sub-requests to each shard something a-la this
> ** 1) q=something&rows=1000&fl=id,score
> ** 2) Request the full documents with ids in the global-top-1000 found among 
> the top-1000 from each shard
> What does the subject mean
> * "limited but high rows" means 1000 in the example above
> * "many shards" means 200-1000 in our case
> * "all with many hits" means that each of the shards have a significant 
> number of hits on the query
> The problem grows on all three factors above
> Doing such a query on our system takes between 5 min to 1 hour - depending on 
> a lot of things. It ought to be much faster, so lets make it.
> Profiling show that the problem is that it takes lots of time to access the 
> store to get id’s for (up to) 1000 docs (value of rows parameter) per shard. 
> Having 1000 shards its up to 1 mio ids that has to be fetched. There is 
> really no good reason to ever read information from store for more than the 
> overall top-1000 documents, that has to be returned to the client.
> For further detail see mail-thread "Slow searching limited but high rows 
> across many shards all with high hits" started 13/11-2014 on 
> dev@lucene.apache.org



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