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Does running multiple Solr shards on a single machine improve performance? I would expect Lucene to be multi-threaded, but it doesn’t seem to be using more than a single core on my server with 16 physical cores. I realize this is workload dependent, but any statistics or benchmarks would be very useful!
I ran some benchmarks of our search stack, and found that adding more Solr shards (on a single machine, with 16 physical cores) did improve performance up to about 8 shards (where I got a 6.5x speed up). This is on an index with ~1.5million documents, running complex range queries.
So, it seems that Solr doesn’t take advantage of multiple physical cores, when running queries against a single index.