: And regarding the proxy caching, the goal wasn't speedup in that area. : It was to decrease memory footprint allowing a larger cache.
right, but if you're willing to settle for request level granularity of caching, and your use case lends itself towards and HTTP cache in front of Solr being effective, then you could probably tune down/off the internal caches and decrease the Solr memory footprint that way. -Hoss
