Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-26 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
That's great information, thanks Bill On 6/26/06, Bill Au <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I added what I considered a first draft into the solrconfig.xml wiki. Bill On 6/23/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > : You can put a load balancer in front of the pool of slave servers for

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-26 Thread Bill Au
I added what I considered a first draft into the solrconfig.xml wiki. Bill On 6/23/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : You can put a load balancer in front of the pool of slave servers for that. Solr does have some features designed to make Load Balancing easy * "healthcheck"

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-24 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Based on this information, it doesn't sound as if any failover or LB : capacity in Tomcat is being used. Is that correct? Correct, Solr doesn't try to take advantage of any special features in any one servlet container (Tomcat or otherwise) -Hoss

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
O/E on the ping. Just found the adminPing config setting. On 6/23/06, Jeff Rodenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Should the /admin/ping URL work on any Solr instance? i.e., http://solr-server:8080/solr/admin/ping? I'm seeing a 500 error. Based on this information, it doesn't sound as if any fa

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
Should the /admin/ping URL work on any Solr instance? i.e., http://solr-server:8080/solr/admin/ping? I'm seeing a 500 error. Based on this information, it doesn't sound as if any failover or LB capacity in Tomcat is being used. Is that correct? thanks, j On 6/23/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: You can put a load balancer in front of the pool of slave servers for that. Solr does have some features designed to make Load Balancing easy * "healthcheck" URLs that your LoadBalancer can query to determine when it should add/remove a server from rotation * a pingQuery which allowing yo

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Bill Au
Solr itself does not handle failover and load balancing of the slave servers. You can put a load balancer in front of the pool of slave servers for that. You can add and remove slave servers from the pool dynamicly without making any change of the master and other slaves. Bill On 6/23/06, Jeff R

Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-22 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
I'm reading in earnest the wiki entries regarding collection distribution and the master/slave operational basis. This is very similar to what we've used previously in our operation based on the lucene core. We're deploying initially on Tomcat 5.5.17, Linux RHEL 3 and the latest bits from Solr.