On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, swarag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey, > I have a distributed search environment with one server hitting 3 shards. > for Example: > > http://server1.cs.tmcs:15100/solr/search/?q=starbucks&shards=server1.cs.tmcs:8983/solr,server2.cs.tmcs:8983/solr,server3.cs.tmcs:8983/solr&collapse.field=locChainId > So, where is the cache stored? Is is distributed on the 3 servers or is it > on server1.cs.tmcs:15100?
It's distributed. You don't really need server1.cs.tmcs:15100 (assuming it's a real server) since it doesn't maintain any state... you can set "shards" as a default parameter in a custom request handler on all 3 shards, then query any of them to distribute the load. -Yonik
