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

azurit at pobox.sk azurit at pobox.sk
Thu Aug 26 09:05:02 EEST 2021


Citát Steve Dondley <s at dondley.com>:

> 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. :)


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