This might help (indirectly): http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk/dev-tools/size-estimator-lu cene-solr.xls
---------------------------------------- From: "gururaj kosuru" <gururaj.kos...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:28 AM To: "solr-user" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: Re: reg: efficient querying using solr Thanks Walter, Shawn and Otis for the assistance, I will look into tuning the parameters by experimenting as seems to be the only way to go. On 11 June 2013 19:17, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 6/11/2013 12:15 AM, gururaj kosuru wrote: > > How can one calculate an ideal max shard size for a solr core instance > if I > > am running a cloud with multiple systems of 4GB? > > That question is impossible to answer without experimentation, but > here's a good starting point. That's all it is, a starting point: > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPerformanceProblems > > Thanks, > Shawn > >