What kind of search response time are you setting with solr full text search?

[Steve Dondley]

On 2021-08-24 08:53 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
> MY SETUP: I have apache solr full text search enabled with dovecot. I
> have an inbox with about 40 subfolders. I'm using the roundcube
> web-based mail client. The find command is showing 15823 email files
> and apache solr reports the same number. I'm running a dedicated mail
> server with a 1 GB of ram. The solr machine is running on a separate
> machine with 4 GB ram.
> 
> THE PROBLEM: When I do a full text search through all my inbox and all
> subfolders on a single word, search results are returned in about 10
> to 15 seconds. This is better than the 40 seconds or so I'm getting
> when I turn off the fts and fts_solr plugins but still a little
> disappointing.
> 
> WHAT I'D LIKE: Now, I don't expect instant search results like gmail,
> but getting the search results to display in less than 5 seconds would
> be a lot less painful that 10 to 15 seconds.
> 
> WHAT I'VE TRIED: I have reindexed the emails on solr to try to speed
> things upit up.
> 
> ANY ADVICE? Curious to know what response times others are seeing and
> if there is anything else I might try to speed things up. Maybe the
> number of subfolders is slowing things down?

OK, I figured it out. It was a bug in Debian's version of dovecot: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970692

Upgrading to "Bulleyse" fixed things up nicely and I now have super fast 
search.

Now I have to go tackle the plugin errors that are crashing the 
roundcube install. :)