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----- Original Message ---- > From: "Woytowitz, Matthew" <matthew.woytow...@mantech.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:01:48 PM > Subject: Distributed Architecture > > I have 4 servers each with 8 cores and 32 gigs of ram with 2TB of SAN > space for each server. We want to distribute the index across the 4 > servers using shards. > > > > What would be better: > > > > 4 big indexes. One on each server. 4 total shards, one per server. > > > > X number of smaller indexes, X on each server. 4X total shards, X per > server. > > How should I divide this up? Separate Java process with separate > solrconfig dirs or one big 64-bit JVM with separate cores. > > > > Anyone done anything like this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matt Woytowitz
