Do you really require multi-shards? Single core/shard will do for even millions of documents and the search will be faster than searching on multi-shards.
Consider multi-shard when you cannot scale-up on a single shard/machine(e.g, CPU,RAM etc. becomes major block). Also read through the SOLR distributed search wiki to check on all tuning up required at application server(Tomcat) end, like maxHTTP request settings. For a single request in a multi-shard setup internal HTTP requests are made through all queried shards, so, make sure you set this parameter higher. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Huge-performance-drop-in-distributed-search-w-shards-on-the-same-server-container-tp2938421p2988464.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
