On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Michael <solrco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yonik, > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> > wrote: >> >> This could well be IO bound - lots of seeks and reads. > > If this were IO bound, wouldn't I see the same results when sending my 8 > requests to 8 Tomcats? There's only one "disk" (well, RAM) whether I'm > querying 8 processes or 8 threads in 1 process, right?
Right - I was thinking IO bound at the Lucene Directory level - which synchronized in the past and led to poor concurrency. Buy your Solr version is recent enough to use the newer unsynchronized method by default (on non-windows) -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com