Mike, For response times I would also look at java.net's Faban benchmarking framework. We use it extensively for our acceptance tests and tuning excercises.
Joshua On Oct 27, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Mike Anderson wrote: > I've been making modifications here and there to the Solr source > code in > hopes to optimize for my particular setup. My goal now is to > establish a > descent benchmark toolset so that I can evaluate the observed > performance > increase before deciding rolling out. So far I've investigated > Jmeter and > Lucid Gaze, but each seem to have pretty steep learning curves, so I > thought > I'd ping the group before I sink a good chunk of time into either. > My ideal > performance metrics aren't so much load testing, but rather response > time > testing for different query types across different Solr > configurations. > > If anybody has some insight into this kind of project I'd love to > get some > feedback. > > Thanks in advance, > Mike Anderson