There is no guarantee that sending an update to a non-leader node is slower. It
certainly seems like a bad idea, but forwarding a document is fast and indexing
a document is slow, so it might not even be measurable.
We’ve indexed a million docs per minute by sending all updates to the load
bala
Hi Ganesh,
I'm not an expert on pysolr, but from a quick scan of their update
code, it does look like pysolr attempts to send update requests to _a_
leader node for a particular collection. But that's all it does. It
doesn't check which shard the document(s) will belong to and try to
pick the _c
