Sorting a large set is costly, the more fields you sort on, the more memory is consumed (and likely cached).
If i remember correctly the result set will be ordered according to Lucene DocID's if there's nothing to sort on. If i read correctly, you don't want to specify those fixed sort parameter for every query right? You can simply add the parameter as default (or constant (= invariant)) in your request handler configuration in solrconfig. > Au contraire, I have almost 4 million documents, representing businesses in > the US. And having the score be the same is a very common occurrence. > > It is quite clear from testing that if score is the same, then it sorts on > indexed_at ascending. It seems silly to make me add a sort on every query, > there should be some configuration to modify this. However, if I make all > my queries include &sort=score+desc,indexed_at+desc will that have a > detrimental performance effect? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Result-order-when-score-is-the-same-tp2 > 816127p2817458.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at > Nabble.com.