It sounds like you have suggester indexes being built on startup. Without them they just come up in a second or so
> On Aug 7, 2020, at 6:03 PM, Schwartz, Tony <tony.schwa...@cinbell.com> wrote: > > I have many collections. When I start solr, it takes 30 - 45 minutes to > start up and load all the collections. My collections are named per day. > During startup, solr loads the collections in alpha-numeric name order. I > would like solr to load the collections in the descending order. So the most > recent collections are loaded first and are available for searching while the > older collections are not as important. Is this possible? > >