Peter, there are events in solrconfig where you define warm up queries when a new searcher is opened.
There are also cache settings that play a role here. 30-60 seconds is pretty frequent for Solr. Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Karich <peat...@yahoo.de> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Fri, July 30, 2010 4:06:48 PM > Subject: Re: Solr Indexing slows down > > Hi Erick! > > thanks for the response! > I will answer your questions ;-) > > > How often are you making changes to your index? > > Every 30-60 seconds. Too heavy? > > > > Do you have autocommit on? > > No. > > > > Do you commit when updating each document? > > No. I commit after a batch update of 200 documents > > > > Committing too often and consequently firing off warmup queries is the > > first >place I'd look. > > Why is commiting firing warmup queries? Is there any documentation about > this subject? > How can I be sure that the previous commit has done its magic? > > > there are several config values that influence the commit frequency > > > I now know the autowarm and the mergeFactor config. What else? Is this > documentation complete: > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ImproveIndexingSpeed ? > > Regards, > Peter. > > > See the subject about 1500 threads. The first place I'd look is how > > often you're committing. If you're committing before the warmup queries > > from the previous commit have done their magic, you might be getting > > into a death spiral. > > > > HTH > > Erick > > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Peter Karich <peat...@yahoo.de> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am indexing a solr 1.4.0 core and commiting gets slower and slower. > >> Starting from 3-5 seconds for ~200 documents and ending with over 60 > >> seconds after 800 commits. Then, if I reloaded the index, it is as fast > >> as before! And today I have read a similar thread [1] and indeed: if I > >> set autowarming for the caches to 0 the slowdown disappears. > >> > >> BUT at the same time I would like to offer searching on that core, which > >> would be dramatically slowed down (due to no autowarming). > >> > >> Does someone know a better solution to avoid index-slow-down? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Peter. > >> > >> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-user@lucene.apache.org/msg20785.html > >> > >> >