Hi Doug, Retrieval Engines are not designed for deep paging (very large start parameter). https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1726
And your sort syntax is wrong. &sort:id It should be &sort=id asc --- On Fri, 11/9/12, Doug Kunzman <dkunz...@usgs.gov> wrote: > From: Doug Kunzman <dkunz...@usgs.gov> > Subject: sort on wild card query not working in solr 3.6 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Friday, November 9, 2012, 1:08 PM > Hi - > > We are using SOLR 3.6 and have noticed that when the start > parameter is a > very large number SOLR's performance is rather slow. > After looking at our schema I was hoping to speed up SOLR > performance by > using a sort order since it could be on an index column. > This hasn't worked. I was wondering if anyone on the > list has an idea? > > This query takes 1708ms which is very good. > http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/bisondev_solr/core0/select/?q=provider_id:10&rows=25&start=10&sort:provider_id > > > This query takes 108129ms which is causing us a lot of > problems. > http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/bisondev_solr/core0/select/?q=*:*&rows=25&start=108524450&sort:id > > Is there anything we can do? I have looked at most of > the standard > documentation on the web but this is my first project using > SOLR. > > D. Kunzman > 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive > Reston, VA 20192 > >