bq: Would having an SSD make considerable difference in speed Almost certainly. Optimize is rarely necessary, especially if you're indexing relatively constantly so just avoiding that might do the trick ;).
But reloading shouldn't be taking 10 minutes. Before 5.2, if you had suggesters configured in your solrconfig.xml (and in some versions, it was enabled by default), then a _very_ expensive rebuild would happen whenever the core loaded, you might want to check that. see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6845 The other possibility is that you had a very large transaction log and abnormally shut Solr down (kill -9 for instance) and the tlog would be replayed. You get a large tlog by indexing a bunch of stuff and not doing a hard commit, see: https://lucidworks.com/blog/understanding-transaction-logs-softcommit-and-commit-in-sorlcloud/ Best, Erick On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu <sandhus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Eric. I think your explanation was the reason. > > Following up on that: Would having an SSD make considerable difference in > speed? > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu < > sandhus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Scrap the last one. It just took 10 mins to load. I panicked too quick. >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu < >> sandhus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I restarted my SOLR and it is now not reloading the configuration. >>> Is my solr index corrupted? >>> >>> Sid. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> You should be able to insert while optimizing. Do be aware that >>>> optimize will probably require that your disk have free _at least_ as >>>> much space as the index takes up. >>>> >>>> It may just be that the disk is so busy with the optimize (it's mostly >>>> just writing from one file to another) that it's appearing to be >>>> slow... >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Erick >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu >>>> <sandhus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> > I pressed the optimize switch. Wasn't the best decision I made today. >>>> The >>>> > aftermath of it was that when I tried to index more documents the curl >>>> just >>>> > waited and waited. >>>> > >>>> > I pinged my SOLR and all is well. I am able to access the admin console >>>> > also. I can query the SOLR machine too. But, I cannot insert into the >>>> > index. Is this behavior normal? >>>> > >>>> > Regards, >>>> > >>>> > Sid. >>>> >>> >>> >>
