Alright. It turned out that defaultSearchField=title where title field is of a custom fieldType=edgyText
where <fieldType name="edtyText" class="solr.TextField"> <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="1" maxGramSize="25" side="back"/> <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="1" maxGramSize="25" side="front"/> </fieldType> so if no value in the "q" parameter is passed, solr picks up default field, which is tiltle of type "edgyText" taking a very long time to return results. Is there a way to IGNORE default(which is there in schema.xml) field dynamically while I only want to search filterlist on keys (e.g. fl=keys)? gram search is slowing things down extremely. Crazy clients want to have minimum word =1, which is kind of insane but that's how it is. Any idea? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-performance-tp2926836p2935175.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.