Enable TermVectors for fields that you're going tot highlight. If it is disabled Solr will reanalyze the field, killing performance.
> I looked into the search that I'm doing a little closer and it seems > like the highlighting is slowing it down. If I do the query without > requesting highlighting it is fast. (BTW, I also have faceting and > pagination in my query. Faceting doesn't seem to change the response > time much, adding &rows= and &start= does, but not prohibitively.) > > The field in question needs to be stored=true, because it is needed > for highlighting. > > I'm thinking of doing this in two searches: first without highlighting > and put a progress spinner next to each result, then do an ajax call > to repeat the search with highlighting that can take its time to > finish. > > (I, too, have seen random really long response times that seem to be > related to not enough RAM, but this isn't the problem because the > results here are repeatable.) > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Sascha Szott <sz...@zib.de> wrote: > > On 23.03.2011 18:52, Paul wrote: > >> I increased maxFieldLength and reindexed a small number of documents. > >> That worked -- I got the correct results. In 3 minutes! > > > > Did you mark the field in question as stored = false? > > > > -Sascha > > > >> I assume that if I reindex all my documents that all searches will > >> become even slower. Is there any way to get all the results in a way > >> that is quick enough that my user won't get bored waiting? Is there > >> some optimization of this coming in solr 3.0? > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Sascha Szott<sz...@zib.de> wrote: > >>> Hi Paul, > >>> > >>> did you increase the value of the maxFieldLength parameter in your > >>> solrconfig.xml? > >>> > >>> -Sascha > >>> > >>> On 23.03.2011 17:05, Paul wrote: > >>>> I'm using solr 1.4.1. > >>>> > >>>> I have a document that has a pretty big field. If I search for a > >>>> phrase that occurs near the start of that field, it works fine. If I > >>>> search for a phrase that appears even a little ways into the field, it > >>>> doesn't find it. Is there some limit to how far into a field solr will > >>>> search? > >>>> > >>>> Here's the way I'm doing the search. All I'm changing is the text I'm > >>>> searching on to make it succeed or fail: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://localhost:8983/solr/my_core/select/?q=%22search+phrase%22&hl=on > >>>> &hl.fl=text > >>>> > >>>> Or, if it is not related to how large the document is, what else could > >>>> it possibly be related to? Could there be some character in that field > >>>> that is stopping the search?
