: Thank you so much! I will look into firstSearcher configuration next! thanks
FYI: prompted by this thread, I added some blurbs about firstSearcher, newSearcher, and FieldCache to the SolrCaching wiki ... as a new users learning about this stuff, please fele free to update that wiki with any improvements you can think of... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching (the best people to write documentation are new users who (unlike the developers) don't have intrinsic knowledge of the subject in the back of their mind that they take for granted). -Hoss