We use it on all requests. We are running 4.10.4 for most searches. We set a pretty high timeAllowed, either five or thirty seconds, depending on the service.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Nov 30, 2016, at 6:28 PM, William Bell <billnb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When should one use timeAllowed in Solr 5.5.3? > > How much overhead is involved in it? Does it create a thread and a timer > event if you use it? Or is the timer event used even if you don't set it > explicitly? > > We are thinking about using it for all requests. Just set it +10 > milliseconds longer than our web requester timeout? Would that create a lot > of overhead? > > Also what is the minimum value - what is the tradeoff? Setting it to 100 > seems excessive, but might make sense on an autosuggest component? > > Also does it include the time to stream the result? So if the payload was > super large, would it expire that? > > The other option is to set it to only requests > 5 seconds... ? > > -- > Bill Bell > billnb...@gmail.com > cell 720-256-8076
