RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Velikin
uary 20, 2012 11:45 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; pe...@velobit.com Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x Peter: I admit I've just scanned the thread, but it sounds like what you're really doing under the covers is configuring your system to utilize

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-20 Thread Erick Erickson
> > > Peter > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:42 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x >

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-20 Thread Ted Dunning
; > > > Best regards, > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:42 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your S

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Velikin
sage- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:42 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x Actually, for search applications there is a reasonable amount of evidence that holding the index in R

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
ng > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:41 AM > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x > > Actually, for search applications there is a reasonable amount of evidence > that holding the index in RAM is actually m

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Ted Dunning
Actually, for search applications there is a reasonable amount of evidence that holding the index in RAM is actually more cost effective than SSD's because the throughput is enough faster to make up for the price differential. There are several papers out of UMass that describe this trade-off, alt

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Fuad Efendi
I agree that SSD boosts performance... In some rare not-real-life scenario: - super frequent commits That's it, nothing more except the fact that Lucene compile time including tests takes up to two minutes on MacBook with SSD, or forty-fifty minutes on Windows with HDD. Of course, with non-empty

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi Peter, > Has anyone else tried adding SSDs as a cache to boost the performance of Solr > clusters? Can you share your results? What do you mean by using SSD *as a cache*? A few years ago, Toke Eskildsen and his colleagues compared Lucene performance with traditional HDDs and SSDs and of cou

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Jason Rutherglen
own-either) > commercial message policy, I'll echo Ted's observation that some commercial > messages (depending on content, tone and context) are acceptable. > > Steve > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jason Rutherglen [mailto:jason.rutherg...@gmail.com] >

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Ted Dunning
Peter, My guess is that if you had said something along the lines of "We have developed some SSD support software that makes SOLR work better. I would like to open a conversation here (link to external discussion)" that would have been reasonably well received. One of the things that makes SPAM

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Steven A Rowe
rg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:33 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x > > Steven, > > Fun-NY... > > 17 hits for this spam: > > http://search-lucene.com/?q=%22Performance+M

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Steven A Rowe wrote: > I want to retract my objection to commercial messages.  I think Ted's > position is more reasonable: on-topic commercial messages that are responsive > to (and maybe even anticipatory of) users' needs will likely be welcomed by > many subs

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Steven A Rowe
ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:11 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Darren Govoni > wrote: > > > And to be honest, many people on this

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Peter Velikin
All, Point taken: my message should have been written more succinctly and just stuck to the facts. Sorry for the sales pitch! However, I believe that adding SSD as a means to accelerate the performance of your Solr cluster is an important topic to discuss on this forum. There are many options

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Darren Govoni
ar...@ontrenet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:40 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x And to be honest, many people on this list are professionals who not only build their own solutions, but also buy tools and tech. I don

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Patrick Plaatje
en Govoni [mailto:dar...@ontrenet.com] >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:40 PM >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x >>> >>> And to be honest, many people on this list are pr

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-19 Thread Darren Govoni
:dar...@ontrenet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:40 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x And to be honest, many people on this list are professionals who not only build their own solutions, but also buy tools and tech. I do

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Ted Dunning
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Darren Govoni wrote: > And to be honest, many people on this list are professionals who not only > build their own solutions, but also buy tools and tech. > > I don't see what the big deal is if some clever company has something of > imminent value here to share i

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Jason Rutherglen
A Rowe wrote: > Why Jason, I declare, whatever do you mean? > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jason Rutherglen [mailto:jason.rutherg...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:29 PM >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Re: How to

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Steven A Rowe
nuary 18, 2012 8:40 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x > > And to be honest, many people on this list are professionals who not > only build their own solutions, but also buy tools and tech. > > I don&#

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Steven A Rowe
Why Jason, I declare, whatever do you mean? > -Original Message- > From: Jason Rutherglen [mailto:jason.rutherg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:29 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Darren Govoni
at is directly relevant to a product or service. Please don’t do this again. Steve Rowe From: Peter Velikin [mailto:pe...@velobit.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:33 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x Hello Solr users, Did you

Re: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Jason Rutherglen
relevant to a product or service. > > Please don’t do this again. > > Steve Rowe > > From: Peter Velikin [mailto:pe...@velobit.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:33 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

RE: How to accelerate your Solr-Lucene appication by 4x

2012-01-18 Thread Steven A Rowe
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