Yes, of course, the only reason to have more shards is so that they can reside on different machines (or use different disks, assuming you have enough CPU/memory etc) so that you can scale your indexing throughput. Move one of them to a different machine and measure the performance.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo <edwinye...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Would like to check, does creating more shards for the core improve the > overall performance? I'm using Solr 5.3.0. > > I tried the indexing for a core with 1 shard and another core with 2 > shards, but both are taking the same amount of time to do the indexing. > > Currently, both my shards are in the same machine. Will the performance be > improved if the shards are located in different machine? > > > Regards, > Edwin -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
