Hi, all, I've been running into murmurs about this idea elsewhere:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8698762/run-multiple-big-solr-shard-instances-on-one-physical-machine http://java.dzone.com/articles/optimizing-solr-or-how-7x-your?mz=33057-solr_lucene Michael On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Kuli, > > As long as there are enough CPUs with spare cycles and disk IO is not a > bottleneck, this works faster. This was 12+ months ago. > > Otis > ---- > Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - > http://sematext.com/spm > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Michael Kuhlmann <k...@solarier.de> >>To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 10:21 AM >>Subject: Re: Solr Shards multi core slower then single big core >> >>Am 14.05.2012 16:18, schrieb Otis Gospodnetic: >>> Hi Kuli, >>> >>> In a client engagement, I did see this (N shards on 1 beefy box with lots >>> of RAM and CPU cores) be faster than 1 big index. >>> >> >>I want to believe you, but I also want to understand. Can you explain >>why? And did this only happen for single requests, or even under heavy load? >> >>Greetings, >>Kuli >> >> >>