http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LargeIndexes
On May 8, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Apache Wiki wrote:
+ In solrconfig.xml, change the dismax parameter "q.alt" to something besides '*:*'. Hitting this query by accident can also make a large index unavailable for minutes.
That's not really true all by itself, is it? I imagine the slowness would be due to faceting or sorting.
Erik