Matt, I believe indexing those fields that you will use for highlighting with term vectors enabled will make things faster (and your index a bit bigger).
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Matt Mitchell <goodie...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:08:23 PM > Subject: highlighting performance > > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with highlighting and am noticing a big drop in > performance with my setup. I have documents that use quite a few dynamic > fields (20-30). The fields are multiValued stored/indexed text fields, each > with a few paragraphs worth of text. My hl.fl param is set to *_t > > What kinds of things can I tweak to make this faster? Is it because I'm > highlighting so many different fields? > > Thanks, > Matt