Re: A question about attaching shards to load balancers

2013-01-30 Thread Peter Keegan
Aren't you concerned about having a single point of failure with this setup? On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Michael Ryan wrote: > From a performance point of view, I can't imagine it mattering. In our > setup, we have a dedicated Solr server that is not a shard that takes > incoming requests

RE: A question about attaching shards to load balancers

2013-01-30 Thread Michael Ryan
>From a performance point of view, I can't imagine it mattering. In our setup, >we have a dedicated Solr server that is not a shard that takes incoming >requests (we call it the "coordinator"). This server is very lightweight and >practically has no load at all. My gut feeling is that having a

Re: A question about attaching shards to load balancers

2013-01-30 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 1/30/2013 6:45 AM, Lee, Peter wrote: Upayavira, Thank you for your response. I'm sorry my post is perhaps not clear...I am relatively new to solr and I'm not sure I'm using the correct nomenclature. We did encounter the issue of one shard in the stripe going down and all other shards conti

Re: A question about attaching shards to load balancers

2013-01-30 Thread Upayavira
ught I'd ask > if anyone has done this already. I was hoping to find a mention of a > "best practice" somewhere regarding this type of question, but I have not > found one yet. > > Thanks. > > Peter S. Lee > > -Original Message- > From: Upayavira [mail

RE: A question about attaching shards to load balancers

2013-01-30 Thread Lee, Peter
ctice" somewhere regarding this type of question, but I have not found one yet. Thanks. Peter S. Lee -Original Message- From: Upayavira [mailto:u...@odoko.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:24 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about attaching shards

Re: A question about attaching shards to load balancers

2013-01-30 Thread Upayavira
I'm afraid I'm note completely clear about your scenario. Let me say how I understand what you're saying, and what I've done in the past. Firstly, I take it you are using Solr 3.x (from your reference to a 'shards' parameter. Secondly, you refer to a 'stripe' as one set of nodes, one for each sha