I'm trying to push to get solr used in our environment. I know I could have responses saying WHY can't you get more RAM etc.., but lets just skip those and work with this situation.
Our index is very small with 100k documents and a light load at the moment. If I wanted to use the smallest possible RAM on the server, how would I do this and what are the issues? I know that caching would be the biggest lose but if solr ran with no to little caching, the performance would still be ok? I know this is a relative question.. This is the only application using java on this machine, would tuning java to use less cache help anything? I should set the cache settings low in the config? Basically, what will having a very low cache hit rate do to search speed and server performance? I know more is better and it depends on what I'm comparing it to but if you could just answer in some way saying that it's not going to cripple the machine or cause 5 second searches? It's on a windows server. Thanks, Mike
