If its worth mentioning here, in my case the disk read speeds seemed to have a really noticeable effect on the query times. What disks are you planning on using? Also, as Otis has already pointed out, I doubt if a single box of that capacity can handle 100-700 queries per second.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Otis Gospodnetic < otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Xavier, > > 100-700 QPS is still high. I'm guessing your 1 box won't handle that > without sweating a lot (read: slow queries). > Otis > ---- > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Xavier Schepler <xavier.schep...@sciences-po.fr> > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 11:53:23 AM > > Subject: Re: What hardware do I need ? > > > > Le 23/04/2010 17:08, Otis Gospodnetic a écrit : > > Xavier, > > > > > > 0-1000 QPS is a pretty wide range. Plus, it depends on how good your > > auto-complete is, which depends on types of queries it issues, among > other > > things. > > 100K short docs is small, so that will all fit in RAM nicely, > > assuming those other processes leave enough RAM for the OS to cache the > > index. > > > > That said, you do need more than 1 box if you want > > your auto-complete more fault tolerant. > > > > Otis > > > > ---- > > Sematext :: > > >http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > > Lucene ecosystem > > search :: > > >http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > > > > > ----- Original > > Message ---- > > > >> From: Xavier Schepler< > > ymailto="mailto:xavier.schep...@sciences-po.fr"; > > href="mailto:xavier.schep...@sciences-po.fr";> > xavier.schep...@sciences-po.fr> > >> > > To: > > href="mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org";>solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >> > > Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 11:01:24 AM > >> Subject: What hardware do I > > need ? > >> > >> Hi, > >> > > I'm > > working with Solr 1.4. > > My schema has about 50 fields. > > > > I'm > > > >> using full text search in short strings (~ > > 30-100 terms) and facetted > >> search. > >> > > > > My index will have 100 000 documents. > > > > The number of > > requests > > > >> per second will be low. Let's say > > between 0 and 1000 because of > >> auto-complete. > >> > > > > Is a standard server (3ghz proc, 4gb ram) with the > > client > > > >> application (apache + php5 + ZF + apc) > > and Tomcat + Solr enough ??? > >> > > Do I > > need > > > >> more hardware ? > >> > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Xavier S. > > > > > Well my auto-complete is built on the facet prefix search > > component. > I think that 100-700 requests per seconds is maybe a better > > approximation. > -- - Siddhant
