> Any tips on load testing solr? Ideally we would like caching to not effect > the result as much as possible.
1. Siege tool This is probably the simplest option. You can generate urls.txt file and pass it to the tool. You should also capture server performance (CPU, memory, qps, etc) using tools like newrelic, zabbix, etc. 2. SolrMeter http://code.google.com/p/solrmeter/ 3. Solr benchmark module (not committed yet) You to run complex benchmarks using different algorithms * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2646 * http://searchhub.org/dev/2011/07/11/benchmarking-the-new-solr-near-realtime-improvements/