On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Gregg Donovan <gregg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yonik,
>
> That's a very clever idea. Unfortunately, I think that will skip the
> distributed query optimization we were hoping to take advantage of in
> SOLR-1880 [1], but it should work with the proposed distrib.singlePass
> optimization in SOLR-5768 [2]. Does that sound right?


Yep, the two together should do the trick.

-Yonik
http://heliosearch.org - native off-heap filters and fieldcache for solr


> --Gregg
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1880
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5768
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@heliosearch.com> wrote:
>
>> You could try forcing things to go through function queries (via
>> pseudo-fields):
>>
>> fl=field(id), field(myfield)
>>
>> If you're not requesting any stored fields, that *might* currently
>> skip that step.
>>
>> -Yonik
>> http://heliosearch.org - native off-heap filters and fieldcache for solr
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Gregg Donovan <gregg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > We fetch a large number of documents -- 1000+ -- for each search. Each
>> > request fetches only the uniqueKey or the uniqueKey plus one secondary
>> > integer key. Despite this, we find that we spent a sizable amount of time
>> > in SolrIndexSearcher#doc(int docId, Set<String> fields). Time is spent
>> > fetching the two stored fields, LZ4 decoding, etc.
>> >
>> > I would love to be able to tell Solr to always fetch these two fields
>> from
>> > memory. We have them both in the fieldCache so we're already spending the
>> > RAM. I've seen this asked previously [1], so it seems like a fairly
>> common
>> > need, especially for distributed search. Any ideas?
>> >
>> > A few possible ideas I had:
>> >
>> > --Check FieldCache.html#getCacheEntries() before going to stored fields.
>> > --Give the documentCache config a list of fields it should load from the
>> > fieldCache
>> >
>> >
>> > Having an in-memory mapping from docId->uniqueKey has come up for us
>> > before. We've used a custom SolrCache maintaining that mapping to quickly
>> > filter over personalized collections. Maybe the uniqueKey should be more
>> > optimized out of the box? Perhaps a custom "uniqueKey" codec that also
>> > maintained the docId->uniqueKey mapping in memory?
>> >
>> > --Gregg
>> >
>> > [1] http://search-lucene.com/m/oCUKJ1heHUU1
>>

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