: So why do you have this 2,000 requirement in the first : place? This really sounds like an XY problem.
I would really suggest re-visiting this question. No sinle user is going to look at 2000 docs on a single page, and in your previous email you said there was a requirement to ask solr for 2000 docs so that you could "process" them -- suggesting that these aren't human generated queries being returned to a human, it sounds more likely that you are going to feed the results into some other system. what is the other system? what type of processing are you doing? would it be more efficient to do that processing as a Solr plugin thta could run on the individual shards? -Hoss
