It's more related to how much memory you have on your boxes, how resource intensive your queries are, how many fields you are trying to facet on, what acceptable response times are, etc.
Anyway... a single box is normally good for between 5M and 50M docs, but can fall out of that range (both up and down) depending on the specifics. -Yonik On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, s d <s.d.sau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi,Is there a recommended index size (on disk, number of documents) for when > to start partitioning it to ensure good response time? > Thanks, > S >