The short answer is no; the number was chosen in an attempt to get as many cores working in parallel to complete the search faster, but I realize that there is an overhead incurred by distribution and merging the results. We've now gone to 8 shards and will be monitoring performance.
/Martin On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidworks.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Martin Koch <m...@issuu.com> wrote: > > around 7M documents in the index; each document has a 45 character ID. > > 7M documents isn't that large. Is there a reason why you need so many > shards (16 in your case) on a single box? > > -Yonik > http://lucidworks.com >
