Shawn Heisey [apa...@elyograg.org] wrote: > I believe it would be useful to organize a session at Lucene Revolution, > possibly more interactive than a straight presentation, where users with > very large indexes are encouraged to attend. The point of this session > would be to exchange war stories, configuration requirements, hardware > requirements, and observations.
>From the perspective of the conference it might tie up a lot of time: If we >were to get down to the configuration level, one session would not be enough. >Some sort of pre-conference bar camp might do it? Or maybe even a whole >pre-conference day? (side-note to the side-note: Living in Europe, going to Lucene/Solr Revolution means spending more time on travel than the actual conference - extending the activities to 3 days would increase the odds of me going next year) > Better documentation for extreme scaling is also a possible outcome. I did at some point try to write a long blog entry on Solr hardware and setup for non-small corpuses, but have to give up: There were just too many "but if you need to scale X, you might be better off by choosing Y, unless your usage is Z". I think multiple detailed descriptions of setups is a great starting point. If we get enough of them, some pattern will hopefully emerge, although I am afraid that the pattern will be "to get this to work, we had to write custom code". > Another idea, not sure if it would be good as an alternate idea or > supplemental, is a less formal gathering, perhaps over a meal or three. Outside of Lucene/Solr Revolution? How would that work geographically? - Toke Eskildsen
