Re: [newbie] questions about 3.6.0 and 4.x or 5.x ?

2015-10-21 Thread Erick Erickson
To chime in, in certain cases the memory requirements for 4x (and 5x) are _much_ improved, see: https://lucidworks.com/blog/2012/04/06/memory-comparisons-between-solr-3x-and-trunk/ But as Shawn says, it's not a magic bullet. Solr 5 requires Java 7, so that's one thing to be aware of. Plus, you e

Re: [newbie] questions about 3.6.0 and 4.x or 5.x ?

2015-10-21 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/21/2015 12:41 PM, Robert Hume wrote: > I've inherited a project that uses a Solr 3.6.0 deployment. (Several > masters and several slaves – I think there are 6 Solr instances in total.) > > I've been tasked with investigating if upgrading our 3.6.0 deployment will > improve performance – the

Re: newbie questions regarding solr cloud

2015-04-02 Thread Upayavira
A couple of additions: I had a system that indexed log files. I created a new core each day (some 20m log events/day). I created collection aliases called today, week and month that aggregated the relevant collections. That way, accessing the “today” collection would always get you to the right pl

Re: newbie questions regarding solr cloud

2015-04-02 Thread Erick Erickson
See inline: On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Ben Hsu wrote: > Hello > > I am playing with solr5 right now, to see if its cloud features can replace > what we have with solr 3.6, and I have some questions, some newbie, and > some not so newbie > > Background: the documents we are putting in solr h

Re: newbie questions about cache stats & query perf

2013-01-09 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, In your Solr version there is a notion of Searcher being opened and reopened. Every time that happens those non-cumulative stats reset. The cumulative_ stats just don't refresh, so you have numbers from when the whole Solr started, not just from the last time Searcher opened. Your cache is

Re: newbie questions

2007-03-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
: 1. It seems that Solr creates/searches one big index, at least logically : - for the current release, does it ever create multiple smaller indexes : behind the scene (except for the secondary, temporary ones used for : update)? Solr only creates one physical lucene index on disk. : 2. The snaps