Re: SorCloud Sharding

2018-05-02 Thread Erick Erickson
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

SorCloud Sharding

2018-05-02 Thread Greenhorn Techie
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