Here at Netflix, we switched over our site search to Solr two weeks ago. We've seen zero problems with the server. We average 1.2 million queries/day on a 250K item index. We're running four Solr servers with simple round-robin HTTP load-sharing.
This is all on 1.1. I've been too busy tuning to upgrade. Thanks everyone, this is a great piece of software. wunder -- Walter Underwood Search Guy, Netflix