Apache Solr is configured by default to have a certain delay (in my case 2 minutes) before indexing content. I've seen in other posts how to reduce this, but I'm having trouble understanding why you would want a delay in the first place? What would be the downsides of reducing the delay to 0?
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It's waiting for more content.
When Solr runs a commit operation to bring more documents into the index, it needs to tear down its existing searcher core and start up a new one. This is a resource intensive operation, and destroys all of the old searcher's caches (and re-runs its cache warming process). If you're doing your updates in a number of different requests, it's less than ideal to spin a new searcher (potentially dozens of times in a few seconds, depending on how you're doing your document additions), slowing down the document updates and trashing the performance of any search queries that come in during that time.
The
<autoCommit>settings in yoursolrconfig.xmlgovern the delay, or you can override it completely and commit instantly by adding?commit=trueto the URL of your HTTPPOSTto the/updateURL.