Thanks for writing this up. These are good tips. /Martin
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM, dw5ight <dw5i...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey All- > > we run a http://carsabi.com car search engine with Solr and did some > benchmarking recently after we switched from a hosted service to > self-hosting. In brief, we went from 800ms complex range queries on a 1.5M > document corpus to 43ms. The major shifts were switching from EC2 Large to > EC2 CC8XL which got us down to 282ms (2.82x speed gain due to 2.75x CPU > speed increase we think), and then down to 43ms when we sharded to 8 cores. > We tried sharding to 12 and 16 but saw negligible gains after this point. > > Anyway, hope this might be useful to someone - we write up exact stats and > a > step by step sharding procedure on our > > http://carsabi.com/car-news/2012/03/23/optimizing-solr-7x-your-search-speed/ > tech blog if anyone's interested. > > best > Dwight > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Practical-Optimization-tp3852776p3852776.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
