OK this makes sense, thanks for the reply Shawn.

On 13/03/2021, 21:34, "Shawn Heisey" <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote:

    On 3/13/2021 11:36 AM, Karl Stoney wrote:
    > Apologies if this is a silly question, I just can't find anything 
explaining the benefits online.
    >
    > Would anyone be able to tell me why you would use a documentCache, if you 
have sufficient RAM on your machine that the OS disk cache is effectively 
caching all the documents anyway?

    I'm pretty sure that the document cache stores uncompressed data.  With
    the disk cache, the decompression step would be required, using CPU
    resources and taking a little bit of time.  Reading from the document
    cache would be faster and not hit the CPU as hard.

    Since I think version 4.1, Solr (Lucene, really) writes stored fields in
    compressed format.

    Thanks,
    Shawn

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