Re: Trying to enable HTTP gzip compression

2019-03-06 Thread Luthien Dulk
Hi Walter, You’re right, this is going nowhere. We thought that the bottleneck might be the http connection between the API running on Cloud Foundry, and the Solr Cluster on an external host. Potentially saving bandwidth on that seemed (at the first glance) like a too good option to not look i

(erratum) Trying to enable HTTP gzip compression

2019-02-27 Thread Luthien Dulk
hi, there was an error in my description of how to enable HTTP compression: the "--add-to-start=gzip” command should NOT be executed from the Solr root directory, but from the server/ (Jetty) directory. The command produces a start.ini file that otherwise ends up in the wrong place. I guess thi

Re: Trying to enable HTTP gzip compression

2019-02-27 Thread Luthien Dulk
Hi Walter and Jörn, thanks for your suggestions! I will keep them in mind. According to our sysadmin, the CPU's on the Solr nodes are “doing basically nothing", so that’s a plentiful resource in our case. We’re most interested in reducing the response time of the whole chain, that (for search A

Trying to enable HTTP gzip compression

2019-02-21 Thread Luthien Dulk
hi all, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. I am looking into whether enabling Gzip HTTP compression for our Solr clusters (all running Solr 6.6.5) would help performance; my problem is that I can’t figure out how to do that. Our infrastructure setup is like this: