Hi Erick, The number of documents is : 4389048
I have given 2 queries below with timing and the number of hits INFO: [ipc_widget_search] webapp=/multicore_5 path=/select/ params={version=2.1&fl=*+score&stylesheet=&qt=standard&fq=&rows=100&start=0&q=content:if+content:elena+content:reads+content:at+content:a+content:rate+content:of+content:r+content:pages+content:per+content:minute+content:for+content:a+content:total+content:of+content:m+content:minutes} hits=3331109 status=0 QTime=22677 INFO: [ipc_widget_search] webapp=/multicore_5 path=/select/ params={version=2.1&fl=*+score&stylesheet=&qt=standard&fq=&rows=100&start=0&q=content:chapter+content:1} hits=1919445 status=0 QTime=6677 Any time I execute the time taken to execute the first query is > than 22secs ,now it took 33 secs to execute. Regards Sujatha On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com>wrote: > How many documents do you have? What are the queries? I'd guess your > query complexity (or load) is to blame here, not index size. What version > of Solr? > > Until you know what is causing the slow queries, sharding is not something > to consider I'd say. But yes, you would want to reindex to distribute the > documents. > > Erik > > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 02:21 , Sujatha Arun wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > One of the Index in a multicore set up has a 3GB+ index ,and it seems to > > take around 5000ms+ to return simple boolean queries . The Index is > > not optimized > > Would it make sense to shard the index as cores in the same server to > > expect better response time? > > > > do I have to re index all over again to distribute the documents between > 2 > > shards ? > > > > Regards > > Sujatha > >