Ah, it's hard to tell. I look at index size on disk, number of docs, query rate, types of queries, etc.
Are you actually seeing problems with your existing servers? Or see specific performance movement in one of the aspects? (e.g. increasing latency, increased GC or memory usage, increased disk IO....) Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: solr <s...@highbeam.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:51:50 PM > Subject: Hardware Questions... > > We have three Solr servers (several two processor Dell PowerEdge > servers). I'd like to get three newer servers and I wanted to see what > we should be getting. I'm thinking the following... > > > > Dell PowerEdge 2950 III > > 2x2.33GHz/12M 1333MHz Quad Core > > 16GB RAM > 6 x 146GB 15K RPM RAID-5 drives > > > > How do people spec out servers, especially CPU, memory and disk? Is this > all based on the number of doc's, indexes, etc... > > > > Also, what are people using for benchmarking and monitoring Solr? Thanks > - Mike
