: <int name="QTime">500</int> : : I'm guessing the delay is from Lucene and not the network but I could be : wrong. 90% of my queries are 8 to 10 times faster than this.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTerminology QTime: The elapsed time (in milliseconds) between the arrival of the request (when the ?SolrQueryRequest object is created) and the completion of the request handler. It does not include time spent in the response writer formatting/streaming the response to the client. ...it can't account for the time spent writing data over the wire, but it also doesn't account for time spent serializing the response as part of the response writer. -Hoss
