Highlighting is dependent on the size of the data being fed through the highlighter. Unless you have termVectors & offsets & positions enabled, the text must be re-analyzed, see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldOptionsByUseCase?highlight=%28termvector%29%7C%28retrieve%29%7C%28contents%29
But highlighting compressed files seems like an odd use-case, what is the business reason you need to do this? Best Erick On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Shyam Bhaskaran <shyam.bhaska...@synopsys.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It is observed that highlighting of search results is taking too much time > especially for highlighting terms for archived files like *.gz, *.tar, *.zip. > What could be the reason behind it ? Is it because these files are unzipped > and then highlighted from the index during display time ? > Or is it dependent on the size of the file ? Is there any way by which the > search & highlighter performance improves for these kind of archived files > (*.tar, *.zip etc) > > Let me know if there is any workaround for improving the highlighting and > search performance for these kind of files? > > -Shyam >