YOu need to tell us a lot more about how you're measuring and how you're querying in order to help us help you. On the face of it, this isn't what I expect, but there are lots of things that can skew results.
FWIW, Erick On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Suchi Amalapurapu <su...@bloomreach.com> wrote: > Hi > Noticed that a solrcloud cluster doesn't scale linearly with # of nodes > unlike the unsharded solr cluster. We are seeing a 10 fold drop in QPS in > multi sharded mode. While some overhead is understandable, the pattern that > we see is, some nodes load averages shoot up and that in turn skews up the > overall latencies of the cluster since those nodes become the weaklings in > the system. > > We tried balancing things out by having atleast a shard(collection) for > each node but there is still lot of unevenness in load averages across > shards. > > Is there a way to avoid these kind of hotspots? > Suchi >