On 11/7/2014 7:17 AM, Ian Rose wrote: > *tl;dr: *Routing updates to a random Solr node (and then letting it forward > the docs to where they need to go) is very expensive, more than I > expected. Using a "smart" router that uses the cluster config to route > documents directly to their shard results in (near) linear scaling for us.
I will admit that I do not know everything that has to happen in order to bounce updates to the proper shard leader, but I would have expected the overhead involved to be relatively small. I have opened an issue so we can see whether this situation can be improved. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6717 Thanks, Shawn
