Do you use highlighting? ( http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HighlightingParameters )
Try to disable it and compare performance. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:52 PM, ahammad <ahmed.ham...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an index with lots of different types of documents. One of those > types basically contains extracts of PDF docs. Some of those PDFs can have > 1000+ pages, so there would be a lot of stuff to search through. > > I am experiencing really terrible performance when querying. My whole index > has about 270k documents, but less than 1000 of those are the PDF extracts. > The slow querying occurs when I search only on those PDF extracts (by > specifying filters), and return 100 results. The 100 results definitely adds > to the issue, but even cutting that down can be slow. > > Is there a way to improve querying with such large results? To give an idea, > querying for a single word can take a little over a minute, which isn't > really viable for an application that revolves around searching. For now, I > have limited the results to 20, which makes the query execute in roughly > 10-15 seconds. However, I would like to have the option of returning 100 > results. > > Thanks a lot. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Performance-issues-when-querying-on-large-documents-tp990590p990590.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
