just a blind shot (didn't read the full thread): what is your maxWarmingSearchers settings? For large indices we set it to 2 (maximum)
Regards, Peter. > just update on this issue... > > we turned off the new/first searchers (upgrade to Solr 1.4.1), and ran > benchmark tests, there is no noticeable performance impact on the queries we > perform comparing with Solr 1.3 benchmark tests WITH new/first searchers. > > Also the memory usage reduced by 5.5 GB after loading the cores with our > data volume by turning these static warm caches off. > > We will take this approach in our production environment but meanwhile I am > curious if this issue will be addressed: it seems the new/first searchers do > not really buy any performance benefits because it uses so much memory, > especially at core loading time. > > thanks > Renee > > > -- http://jetwick.com twitter search prototype
