Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, my plan was to two have two instances both running as "masters" although one would only be a warm-standby for querying purposes. I just wanted a little bit of redundancy for the moment and I though a true master-slave setup would be overkill. Is it really problematic to run queries on instances that aren't auto-warmed? Sounds like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard-place. Am I going to have to build my initial index w/ one configuration and then re-start with a different configuration? I'd prefer to avoid that.
If I can get the auto-warming issue straightened out. I *should* be OK w/ a fairly conservative commit strategy (either auto-commit every fairly large # of docs, or do the same programmatically). Does this sound right? On 5/10/08, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > : On a solr instance where I am in the process of indexing moderately > large > > : number of documents (300K+). There is no querying of the index taking > place > : at all. > : I don't understand what operations are causing new searchers to warm, or > how > : to stop them from doing so. I'd be happy to provide more details of my > : configuration if necessary, I've made very few changes to the > solrconfig.xml > : that comes with the sample application. > > > the one aspect that i didn't see mentioned in this thread so far is cache > autowarming. > > even if no querying is going on while you are doing all the indexing, if > some querying took place at any point, and your caches have someentries in > them. every commit will cause autowarming of caches to happen (according > to the autowarm settings on each cache) which result in queries getting > executed on your "warming" searcher, and those queries keep cascading on > to the subsequent warming searchers. > > this is one of the reasosn why it's generlaly a good idea to have the > cache sizes on your "master" boxes all have autowarm counts of "0". you > can still use the caches in case you do inadvertantly hit your master (you > don't want it to fall over and die) but you don't want to waste a lot of > time warming them on every commit until the end of time. > > -Hoss > >
