Qdrant Scaling
Route first, then answer. Match the user's symptom in the table, Read that file, and answer from it.
Do not answer from this page alone: it contains routing only, not the guidance. If two rows match, read both.
Latency and throughput pull opposite ways on segment count.
For latency, increase segments toward the CPU core count (default_segment_number: 16).
For throughput, use fewer and larger segments (default_segment_number: 2).
Applying the wrong direction makes the reported problem worse.
