Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine

2008-10-14 Thread Noble Paul നോബിള്‍ नोब्ळ्
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yonik > Seeley > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:38 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Feak, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: &g

RE: Practical number of Solr instances per machine

2008-10-14 Thread Feak, Todd
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yonik Seeley Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:38 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Feak, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine

2008-10-14 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Feak, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In our load testing, the limit for utilizing all of the processor time > on a box was locking (synchronize, mutex, monitor, pick one). There were > a couple of locking points that we saw. > > 1. Lucene's locking on the index f

RE: Practical number of Solr instances per machine

2008-10-14 Thread Feak, Todd
Original Message- From: Phillip Farber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:44 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine Otis, you have a good memory :-) I guess the main thing that prompted my question me was Mike K

Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine

2008-10-14 Thread Phillip Farber
Otis, you have a good memory :-) I guess the main thing that prompted my question me was Mike Klass' statement that he runs 2 instance per machine to "squeeze" performance out of the box. That raised the question in my mind as to just how this could benefit performance over a single instance

Re: Practical number of Solr instances per machine

2008-10-13 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, Did you not ask this question a while back? I may be mixing things... (hah, no, just checked) In short, it depends on a number of factors, such as index sizes, query rates, complexity of queries, amount of RAM, your target query latency, etc. etc. So there is no super clear cut answer. I