: > Also make sure that common filters, sort fields, and facets have been : > warmed. : : I assume these are achieved by setting large cache size and large : autowarmcount number in solr configuration? specifically
autowarming seeds the cahces of a new Searcher using hte keys of an old searcher -- it does nothing to help you when you first start up SOlr and all of hte caches are empty. for that you need to either need to manually trigger some sample queries externally (before your stress test) or configure something using the firstSearcher event listener in solrconfig.xml. If you saw all of your requests block untill the first one finished, then i suspect your queries involve a sort (or faceting) that use the FieldCache which is initialized in a single threaded mode (and can't be auto-warmed, you can put some simple queries that use those sort fields in the newSearcher listener to ensure that they get reinitialized for each new searcher) -Hoss
