Re: Search Performance and omitNorms

2019-12-05 Thread Odysci
Hi Erick, thanks for the reply. Just to follow up, I'm using "unified" highlighter (fastVector does not work for my purposes). I search and highlight on a multivalued string string field which contains small strings (usually less than 200 chars). This multivalued field is subject to various process

Re: Search Performance and omitNorms

2019-12-03 Thread Erick Erickson
I suspect this is spurious. Norms are just an encoding of the length of a field, offhand I have no clue how having them (or not) would affect highlighting at all. Term _vectors_ OTOH could have a major impact. If FastVectorHighlighter is not used, the highlighter has to re-analyze the text in ord

Search Performance and omitNorms

2019-12-03 Thread Odysci
I'm using solr-8.3.1 on a solrcloud set up with 2 solr nodes and 2 ZK nodes. I was experiencing very slow search-with-highlighting on a index that had 'omitNorms="true"' on all fields. At the suggestion of a stackoverflow post, I changed all fields to be 'omitNorms="false"' and the search-with-high