Re: Scaling out/up or a mix

2009-07-01 Thread Marcus Herou
Hi agree that faceting might be the thing that defines this app. The app is mostly snappy during daytime since we optimize the index around 7.00 GMT. However faceting is never snappy. We speeded things up a whole bunch by creating various "less cardinal" fields from the originating publishedDate w

Re: Scaling out/up or a mix

2009-06-28 Thread Marcus Herou
Hi. I think I need to be more specific. What I am trying to find out is if I should aim for: CPU (2x4 cores, 2.0-3.0Ghz)? Fast disk IO: 8 disks, RAID1+0 ? RAM - if the index does not fit into RAM how much RAM should I then buy ? Please any hints would be appreciated since I am going to invest so

Scaling out/up or a mix

2009-06-26 Thread Marcus Herou
Hi. I currently have an index which is 16GB per machine (8 machines = 128GB) (data is stored externally, not in index) and is growing like crazy (we are indexing blogs which is crazy by nature) and have only allocated 2GB per machine to the SOLR app since we are running some other stuff there in p