First query will cause the index caches to be warmed up and this is why the first query takes some time.
You can prewarm the caches with a query (when solr starts up) of your choosing in the config file. Google around the SolrWiki on cache/index warming. hth > hi, > > I had an solr3.3 index of 200,000 documents, all text are stored and the > total index size is 27gb. > I used dismax query with over 10 qf and pf boosting field each, plus > sorting on score and other 2 fields. It took quite a few seconds(5-8) for > the first time query to return any result(no highlighting is invloved). > (even slower for phrase query) > > My question is, what is the bottle neck of the query speed? lucene query > part? Scoring? or fill document cache with document content? Can anyone > answer? > > Is there anyway of improving the first time query speed? > > thanks in advance, > shen >
