On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > My guess is you're hitting the first time something is done, like sorting > or some such > occasionally on these queries by chance when a new searcher is opened.
And actually, if it was something like sorting (populating a field cache), then it may only get slow after a new searcher is open *after* a big merge (since sorting and functions are generally per-segment). -Yonik http://lucidworks.com