The main point is, Solr unlike for example Elastic Search and other Lucene based systems does NOT cache filters or facets per-segment.
This is a fundamental design flaw. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As I understand it, the document and filter caches add value *intra* request >> such that it keeps additional work (like fetching stored fields from disk >> more than once) from occurring. > > Yep. Highlighting, multi-select faceting, and distributed search are > just some of the scenarios where the caches are utilized in the scope > of a single request. > Please folks, don't disable your caches! > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com