performance effect a thread doing an update has on other search threads

2016-01-26 Thread derekallwardt
We have an application (backed by Solr 5.x) that does a lot of updates interleaved with queries. For the sake of better understanding the performance effect that the ratio of updates to queries has on query performance, we tested the following two scenarios. scenario 1: 10 threads doing updates

Re: performance effect a thread doing an update has on other search threads

2016-01-26 Thread Erick Erickson
Because the second form is opening searchers, invalidating caches and doing warmup queries twice as often would be my guess. But this is an invalid test in my opinion. I'm reading this that you're issuing the soft commits from the clients. This is definitely an anti-pattern, I _strongly_