"hurricane katrina" is a very expensive query against a collection focused on Hurricane Katrina. There will be many matches in many documents. If you want to measure worst-case, this is fine.
I'd try other things, like: * ninth ward * Ray Nagin * Audubon Park * Canal Street * French Quarter * FEMA mistakes * storm surge * Jackson Square Of course, real query logs are the only real test. wunder On 10/31/07 3:25 PM, "Mike Klaas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31-Oct-07, at 2:40 PM, Haishan Chen wrote: > >> >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-java-user/ >> 200512.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> It mentioned that http://websearch.archive.org/katrina/ (in nutch) >> had 10M documents and a search of "hurricane katrina" was able to >> return in 1.35 seconds with 600,867 hits. Althought the computer >> it was using might be more powerful than mine. I feel 937ms for a >> phrase query on a single field is kind of slower. Nutch actually >> expand a search to more complex queries. My index and the number of >> hits on my query ("auto repair") is about one fifth of >> websearch.archive.org and its testing query. So I feel a reasonable >> performance for my query should be less than 300 ms. I am not sure >> if I am right on that logic. > > I'm not sure that it is reasonable, but I'm not sure that it isn't. > However, have you tried other queries? 937ms seems a little high, > even for phrase queries. > >> Anyway I will collect the statistic on linux first and try out >> other options. > > Have you tried using the performance enhancements present in solr-trunk? > > -Mike