Solr 1.4 - stats page slow

[Stephen Weiss]

We've been using Solr 1.4 for a few days now and one slight downside  
we've noticed is the stats page comes up very slowly for some reason -  
sometimes more than 10 seconds.  We call this programmatically to  
retrieve the last commit date so that we can keep users from  
committing too frequently.  This means some of our administration  
pages are now taking a long time to load.  Is there anything we should  
be doing to ensure that this page comes up quickly?  I see some notes  
on this back in October but it looks like that update should already  
be applied by now.  Or, better yet, is there now a better way to just  
retrieve the last commit date from Solr without pulling all of the  
statistics?

Thanks in advance.
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Steve