If there are twenty synonyms, then a one term query becomes a twenty term query, and that means 20X more disk accesses.
wunder On 11/12/08 7:08 AM, "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Manepalli, Kalyan wrote: >> I did the index time synonyms and results do look much better >> than the query time indexing. >> But is there a reason for the searches to be that slow. I understand >> that we have a pretty long list of synonyms (one word contains atleast >> 20 words as synonyms). Does this have such an adverse impact > > Apparently so :/ > > Are there other components in your request handler that may also be > (re)executing a query? Does the debugQuery=true component timings > point to any other bottlenecks? > > Erik >