I definitely haven't tried this ;=) but perhaps you could create your own XXXSynonymFilterFactory as a subclass of SynonymFilterFactory, which would allow you to share the synonym map across all cores - though I think there would need to be a nasty global variable to hold a reference to it...
-Simon On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Phil Hoy <p...@friendsreunited.co.uk>wrote: > Hi, > > We have a multi-core set up with a fairly large synonym file, all cores > share the same schema.xml and synonym file but when solr loads the cores, > it loads multiple instances of the synonym map, this is a little wasteful > of memory and lengthens the start-up time. Is there a way to get all cores > to share the same map? > > > Phil >