Solr Tuning Tips From Sourcesense

Gustavo Fernades, Senior Open Source Consultant at Sourcesense UK, recently did a talk detailing six Solr tuning tips that can help significantly reduce query times in large-scale and near real time search environments. He covers adding memory, auto warming, application profiling, FieldValhe, JVM and garbage collection, and using maxWarmingSearchers.

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