Multi-core was first added in 1.3 version and matured in 1.4. And as far as I understand the Solr team encourages the use of multi-core.
Marc. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Thumuluri, Sai < sai.thumul...@verizonwireless.com> wrote: > Thank you, I will go the multi-core route and see how that works out. I > guess, if we have to run queries across the cores, I may have to just > run separate queries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc SCHNEIDER [mailto:marc.schneide...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:01 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Solr multi cores or not > > Hi, > > It depends on what kind of data you are indexing between your multiple > applications. > If app1 has many fields to be indexed and app2 too and if theses fields > are > differents then it would probably be better to have multi cores. > If you have a lot of common fields between app1 and app2 then one index > is > probably the best choice as it will avoid you configuring / implementing > several indexes. In this case you can also have a differentiating field > (like 'type') so that you can get data corresponding to your app. > It really depends on your data structure. > > Hope this helps, > Marc. > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Thumuluri, Sai < > sai.thumul...@verizonwireless.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a need to index multiple applications using Solr, I also have > the > > need to share indexes or run a search query across these application > > indexes. Is solr multi-core - the way to go? My server config is > > 2virtual CPUs @ 1.8 GHz and has about 32GB of memory. What is the > > recommendation? > > > > Thanks, > > Sai Thumuluri > > > > > > >