On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Bradford Stephens < bradfordsteph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the facet aggregation take place on the Solr search server, or > the Solr client? > > It's pretty slow for me -- on a machine with 8 cores/ 8 GB RAM, 50 > million document index (about 36M unique values in the "author" > field), a query that returns 131,000 hits takes about 20 seconds to > calculate the top 50 authors. The query I'm running is this: > > > http://dttest10:8983/solr/select/select?q=java&facet=true&facet.field=authorname > : > > Is the author field tokenized? Is it multi-valued? It is best to have untokenized fields. Solr 1.4 has huge improvements in faceting performance so you can try that and see if it helps. See Yonik's blog post about this - http://yonik.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/solr-faceted-search-performance-improvements/ -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
