This is really strange. You should have _fewer_ tokens in your stemmed field. Plus, the up-front processing to stem the field in the query shouldn't be noticeable.
Let's see the query and results from &debug=all being added to the URL because something is completely strange here. Best, Erick On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Jens Meiners <snej.sren...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > we've built an index (Solr 4.3), which contains approx. 1 Million docs and > its size is around 20 GB (optimized). > > In our index we have one field which contains the tokenized words of > indexed documents and a second field with the stemmed contents > (SnowballFilter, German2). > > During our tests we've found out that some keywords are just taking too > long to process. When we exclude the stemmed field from our edismax > configuration (qf) the query time was surprisingly quick (10 000x faster). > > Had one of you the same experience ? > > We are using the stemmed field only to increase the returned documents and > not for highlighting. We know that by applying highlighting on stemmed > values is not good for query speed. > > Best Regards, > Jens Meiners >