Hi, Will,
Have you investigated not using EBS volumes at all? I'm not sure what node
size you're using, but for example, you can build a RAID 0 out of the four
instance volumes on an m1.xlarge and get lots of disk bandwidth. Also,
there's some nice SSD instances available now. http://www.ec2instan
We currently have a SolrCloud cluster that contains two collections which we
toggle between for querying and indexing. When bulk indexing to our “offline"
collection, our query performance from the “online” collection suffers
somewhat. When segment merges occur, it gets downright abysmal. We hav