On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Matt Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the all query *:* with a few filter queries (type:stuff, > userId:12345, category:3, etc). Without sorting, my query takes about > 600ms, > which is fine for me. My target range is 500-1000ms. When I add a sort > field, my query takes about 53,000ms, which seems ridiculous. The field I'm > sorting on is a sortable long with omitNorms=true. My index has around 2M > docs and my configuration is the default. > > Is this simply the initial price to pay for using a sort field, or is there > any way I can improve my cold query time?
You can try to put a sort query in the newSearcher/firstSearcher event so that the FieldCache for the long field is created and kept ready for subsequent searches. This should help. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
