Martin,

Can you tell me what's the content of that field, and how it should affect
search result?

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Martin Koch <m...@issuu.com> wrote:

> 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.
>



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Sincerely yours
Mikhail Khludnev
Tech Lead
Grid Dynamics

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