On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:20 +0100, Salman Akram wrote: > Cache warming is a good option too but the index get updated every hour so > not sure how much would that help.
What is the time difference between queries with a warmed index and a cold one? If the warmed index performs satisfactory, then one answer is to upgrade your underlying storage. As always for IO-caused performance problem in Lucene/Solr-land, SSD is the answer.