http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPerformanceFactors
If you do a lot of field based sorting, it is advantageous to add explicitly warming queries to the "newSearcher" and "firstSearcher" event listeners in your solrconfig which sort on those fields, so the FieldCache is populated prior to any queries being executed by your users. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Sorting-by-field-is-slow-tp4070026p4070028.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.