Sure: We're boosting search results based on user actions which could be e.g. the number of times a particular document has been read. In future, we'd also like to boost by e.g. impressions (the number of times a document has been displayed) and other values.
/Martin On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Mikhail Khludnev <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com > wrote: > 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. > > > > > > -- > Sincerely yours > Mikhail Khludnev > Tech Lead > Grid Dynamics > > <http://www.griddynamics.com> > <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com> >
