Hi all,
After reading
http://carsabi.com/car-news/2012/03/23/optimizing-solr-7x-your-search-speed/ ,
I thought I'd do my own experiments. I used 2M docs from wikipedia, indexed in
Solr 4.0 Beta on a standard EC2 large instance. I compared an unsharded and
2-shard configuration (the latter set
Before anyone asks, these results were obtained warm.
On 20 Sep 2012, at 14:39, Tom Mortimer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After reading
> http://carsabi.com/car-news/2012/03/23/optimizing-solr-7x-your-search-speed/
> , I thought I'd do my own experiments. I used 2M docs from wikipedia, indexed
> in
Depends on where the bottlenecks are I guess.
On a single system, increasing shards decreases throughput (this
isn't specific to Solr). The increased parallelism *can* decrease
latency to the degree that the parts that were parallelized outweigh
the overhead.
Going from one shard to two shards