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  1. Solr
  2. SOLR-16546

Faceting puts an entry for each q into the filterCache

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Open
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 9.0
    • None
    • faceting
    • None

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      I noticed that I was getting far more entries in the filterCache than I was expecting. All my app's FQs are driven by the app itself. There are only a couple dozen FQs possible in our queries, but I'd be getting ~10K cache ejections every hour. That didn't make any sense.

      So I investigated and discovered that making a query using facets adds an entry to the filterCache. Here's my demonstration.

      The script show-results is this:

      {{curl -s "$URL/twit/admin/cache" | jq -S .queries
      curl -s "$URL/admin/metrics" | jq '.metrics."solr.core.twit"."CACHE.searcher.filterCache".inserts'
      }}

      The /admin/cache handler is Shawn Heisey's cache dumper he's working on in ticket SOLR-15859.

      {{# Freshly started Solr. No cache entries.
      $ ./show-results
      {}
      0

      1. Query on "alpha" with facets on.
        $ curl -s $URL/twit/select?q=title:alpha&rows=0&facet=on&facet.field=grouping
      1. Now there is a filter cache entry.
        $ ./show-results { "title:alpha": 0 }

        1

      1. Query on "beta" with facets on. "beta" shows up in the cache.
        $ curl -s $URL/twit/select?q=title:beta&rows=0&facet=on&facet.field=grouping

      $ ./show-results

      { "title:alpha": 0, "title:beta": 0 }

      2

      1. Now query on "gamma" with facets OFF.
        $ curl -s $URL/twit/select?q=title:gamma&rows=0&facet=off&facet.field=grouping
      1. The "gamma" does not show up in the filter cache.
        $ ./show-results { "title:alpha": 0, "title:beta": 0 }

        2

      1. Now do same query on "gamma" with facets ON.
        $ curl -s $URL/twit/select?q=title:gamma&rows=0&facet=on&facet.field=grouping
      1. The "gamma" shows up.
        $ ./show-results { "title:alpha": 0, "title:beta": 0, "title:gamma": 0 }

        3
        }}

      Is this correct behavior? Do I need to adjust my filterCache to allow for this?

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            petdance Andy Lester
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