: If the latency is caused by loading and caching of Lucene's segments, : is there a way to force Lucene's index to preload this? This seems to
configure some static queries in newSearcher and firstSearcher listeners ... it doesn't really matter what the queries are as long as they force some access to the new index ... but if you do any sorting you should definitely make sure that is represented in the queries as well. -Hoss