1> You have to prototype, see:
https://lucidworks.com/2012/07/23/sizing-hardware-in-the-abstract-why-we-dont-have-a-definitive-answer/
2> No. It could be done, but it'd take some very careful work.
Basically you'd have to merge "adjacent" shards where "adjacent" is
measured by the shard range of e
Hi,
I have few questions on sharding in a SolrCloud setup:
1. How to know the optimal number of shards required for a SolrCloud setup?
What are the factors to consider to decide on the value for *numShards*
parameter?
2. In case if over sharding has been done i.e. if numShards has been set to
a v