Hi, Maybe your goal should be to make your queries faster instead of fighting with timeouts which are known not to work well.
What is your hardware like? How about your queries? What do you see in debugQuery=true output? Otis -- SOLR Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm On Nov 21, 2012 6:04 PM, "Aleksey Vorona" <avor...@ea.com> wrote: > In all of my queries I have timeAllowed parameter. My application is ready > for partial results. However, whenever Solr returns partial result it is a > very bad result. > > For example, I have a test query and here its execution log with the > strict time allowed: > WARNING: Query: <omitted>; Elapsed time: 120Exceeded allowed search > time: 100 ms. > INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/select params={<omitted>&timeAllowed=**100} > hits=189 status=0 QTime=119 > Here it is without such a strict limitation: > INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/select params={<omitted>&timeAllowed=**10000} > hits=582 status=0 QTime=124 > > The total execution time is different by mere 5 ms, but the partial result > has only about 1/3 of the full result. > > Is it the expected behaviour? Does that mean I can never rely on the > partial results? > > I added timeAllowed to protect from too expensive wide queries, but I > still want to return something relevant to the user. This query returned > 30% of the full result, but I have other queries in the log where partial > result is just empty. Am I doing something wrong? > > P.S. I am using Solr 3.6.1, index size is 3Gb and easily fits in memory. > Load Average on the Solr box is very low. > > -- Aleksey >