Rishi: Thanks very much for taking the time to post this, we're always looking for before/after numbers!
Erick On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome news Rishi! Looking forward to your SolrCloud updates. > > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Rishi Easwaran > <rishi.easwa...@aol.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> Its Friday 3:00pm, warm & sunny outside and it was a good week. Figured >> I'd share some good news. >> I work for AOL mail team and we use SOLR for our mail search backend. >> We have been using it since pre-SOLR 1.4 and strong supporters of SOLR >> community. >> We deal with millions indexes and billions of requests a day across our >> complex. >> We finished full rollout of SOLR 4.2.1 into our production last week. >> >> Some key highlights: >> - ~75% Reduction in Search response times >> - ~50% Reduction in SOLR Disk busy , which in turn helped with ~90% >> Reduction in errors >> - Garbage collection total stop reduction by over 50% moving application >> throughput into the 99.8% - 99.9% range >> - ~15% reduction in CPU usage >> >> We did not tune our application moving from 3.5 to 4.2.1 nor update java. >> For the most part it was a binary upgrade, with patches for our special >> use case. >> >> Now going forward we are looking at prototyping SOLR Cloud for our search >> system, upgrade java and tomcat, tune our application further. Lots of fun >> stuff :) >> >> Have a great weekend everyone. >> Thanks, >> >> Rishi. >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar.