The fastest solr query I can find is any query on unused dynamic field name: unused_dynamic_field_s:3 Is there another query style that should be faster? See this line in http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrConfigXml
<pingQuery>q=solr&version=2.0&start=0&rows=0</pingQuery> A better ping query would be q=unused_dynamic_field_s:3 Thanks, Lance