: I would guess that your first query is hitting the queryResultCache. yeah, that's almost certainly why you're seeing the "page#0" query be so fast -- but IIRC the cursorMark pages can't be cached in the same way?
where you'll start to see significant speed ups is in in the subsequent "pages"... https://lucidworks.com/2013/12/12/coming-soon-to-solr-efficient-cursor-based-iteration-of-large-result-sets/ -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
