Jame, That really depends on your hardware, query load and profile, search latency and other performance requirements.
That said, a 123 GB core is a pretty big core :) Otis ---- Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - http://sematext.com/spmĀ ----- Original Message ----- > From: jame vaalet <jamevaa...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:40 AM > Subject: optimum solr core size > > Hi, > I have got singel core solr deployment in production and the documents are > getting added daily (around 1 million entries per week). My core size has > approached 123 GB, i would like to know what would be the optimum size of a > single core (not the number of docs but the size of the index file) to > start a new core. > > -- > > -JAME >