Category: solr
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Solr Upgrade Surprise and Using Kill To Debug It
At work, we’ve recently upgraded to the latest and greatest stable version of Solr (3.6), and moved from using the dismax parser to the edismax parser. The initial performance of Solr was very poor in our environment, and we removed the initial set of search features we had planned to deploy trying to get the…
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Groovy, A Reasonable JVM Language for DevOps
I’ve worked at several environments where most of our product was run through the JVM. I’ve always used the information available to me in Mbeans, but the overhead of exposing them to a monitoring system like Ganglia or Nagios has always been problematic. What I’ve been looking for is a simple JVM language that allows…
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Solr Query Change Beats JVM Tuning
I’ve been spending the last few days at work trying to improve our search performance, and have been banging my head against the dismax query target and parser in Solr. For those not familiar with the Dismax, its a simplified parser for Solr that eliminates the complexity from the Standard query parser. Instead of search…