Improving Solr query performance after the start and commit operations
Almost everyone who has some experience with Solr would have noticed one thing—right after startup or searcher reopening (such as a soft autocommit), Solr doesn't have such query performance as after running for a while. This is happening because Solr doesn't have any information stored in caches, the I/O is not optimized, and so on. Can we do something about it? Of course we can, and this recipe will show you how to do it.
How to do it...
- First of all, we need to identify the most common and the heaviest queries that we send to Solr. I have two ways of doing this: first, I analyze the logs that Solr produces and see how queries are behaving. I tend to choose those queries that ...
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