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The Compass GAE walkthrough (http://www.kimchy.org/searchable-google-appengine-with-compa...) was also able to get a rudimentary Lucene indexer up and running. However many people eventually ran into problems with App Engine's 30-second request processing limit. For your Solr instance did you utilize the Task Queue or have to do anything special to work around the 30-second limitation?

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I'm not doing anything with Task Queue at the moment. I'm using the Lucene implementation from Compass (and I've used it elsewhere too), so I am familiar with it.

From memory, I think Compass had a unique problem with the 30 second limit because it would try and re-sync the non-Lucene data with the Lucene indexes (I can't remember what the trigger was for this).

I had quite a lot of issues with Compass-GAE - my impression was that it wasn't really production ready. However, I did notice that Google is using it for their ThoughSite example app, so maybe it has improved.

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