: Could it be a problem with my cache settings in solrconfig.xml (solr 3.1) : or is my query wrong?
3.1? ouch ... PostFilter wasn't even added until 3.4... https://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#Caching_of_filters ...so your spatial filter is definitely being applied to the entire index and then getting cached. . . . Below is what i wrote before i saw that 3.4 comment at the end of your email... : If I run the same query but add a spatial filter with cost: : q=*:* : fl=adr_geopoint,adr_city,filterflags : *fq=(filterflags:TopList) * : pt=49.594,8.468 : sfield=adr_geopoint : fq={!bbox d=30} : fq={!frange l=15 u=30 *cache=false *cost=200}geodist() : : It takes over 3 seconds even though it should only scan around 3000 : documents from the first cached filter? You've also added a "bbox" filter, which will be computed against the entire index and cached. I'm not sure whta FieldType you are using, and i don't know a lot of the detials about hte spatial queries -- but things you should look into... 1) does the bbox gain you anything if you are already doing the geodist filter as a post filter? (my hunch would be that the only point of a bbox fq is if you are *scoring* documents by distance and you want to ignore things beyond a set distance) 2) does {!bbox} support PostFilter on your FieldType? does adding "cache=false cost=150" to the bbox filter improve things? -Hoss
