I think the indexing will be fine. We are looking to use multi-select faceting, spelling suggestions, and highlighting to name a few. On the front end (and on separate machines) are .NET web applications that issue queries via HTTP requests to our searchers. I can't think of anything else that will require extra processing. Thanks for bringing those considerations to my attention. Is there anything there that significantly impacts the hardware needs?
-----Original Message----- From: Gora Mohanty [mailto:g...@mimirtech.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:47 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: General hardware requirements? On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Nicholas Swarr <nsw...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Our index is about 10 gigs in size with about 3 million documents. The documents range in size from dozens to hundreds of kilobytes. Per week, we only get about 50k queries. > Currently, we use lucene and have one box for our indexer that has 32 gigs of memory and an 8 core CPU. We have a pair of search boxes that have about 16 gigs of ram a piece and 8 core CPUs. They hardly break a sweat. > We're looking to adopt Solr. Should we consider changing our configuration at all? Are there any other hardware considerations for adopting Solr? [...] On the face of it, your machines should easily be adequate for the the search volume you are looking at. However, there are other things that you should consider: * How are you indexing? What are acceptable times for this? * Are there any new Solr-specific features that you are considering using, e.g., faceting? What performance benchmarks are you looking to achieve? * What is your front-end for the search? Where is it running? Regards, Gora
