Hi All, I'm currently looking on integrating Solr and I'd like to have some hints on the size of the index (number of documents) I could possibly host on a server running a Double-Quad server (16 cores) with 48Gb of RAM running Linux. Basically, I need to determine how many of these servers would be required to host about half a billion documents. Should I setup multiple Solr instances (in Virtual Machines or not) or should I run a single instance (with multicores or not) using all available memory as the cache ?
I also made some tests with shardings on this same server and I could not see any improvement (at least not with 4.5 millions documents). Should all the shards be hosted on different servers? I shall try with more documents in the following days. Thx
