Hi List We're using Solr-4.0.0-Beta with a 7M document index running on a single host with 16 shards. We'd like to use an ExternalFileField to hold a value that changes often. However, we've discovered that the file is apparently re-read by every shard/core on *every commit*; the index is unresponsive in this period (around 20s on the host we're running on). This is unacceptable for our needs. In the future, we'd like to add other values as ExternalFileFields, and this will make the problem worse.
It would be better if the external file were instead read in in the background, updating previously read relevant values for each shard as they are read in. I guess a change in the ExternalFileField code would be required to achieve this, but I have no experience here, so suggestions are very welcome. Thanks, /Martin Koch - Issuu - Senior Systems Architect.
