GUess - I had the same issues as you. Was resolved http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Slow-QTimes-5-seconds-for-Small-sized-Collections-td4143681.html
was resolved by adding an explicit host mapping entry on /etc/hosts for inter node solr communication - thereby bypassing DNS Lookups. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-irregularly-having-QTime-50000ms-stracing-solr-cures-the-problem-tp4146047p4146858.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.