I know u mentioned you have a single machine at play - but do you have multiple nodes on the machine that talk to one another ??
Does your problem recur when the load on the system is low ? Also faced a similar problem wherein the "5 second delay" (described in detail on my other post) kept happening after a 1.5 minute inactivity interval. This was explained off as Solr keeping alive the http connection for inter-node communication for around 1.5 minutes before disconnecting - and if a new request happens post 1.5 minutes then, a new connection is created - which probably suffers a latency due to a DNS Name Lookup delay. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-irregularly-having-QTime-50000ms-stracing-solr-cures-the-problem-tp4146047p4147512.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.