Well, there's a ticket out there for "thousands of collections on a single machine", although this is waaaay out there. I often see 10-20 small cores on a 4-8 core machine if they're reasonably small (a few million docs). I see a single replica strain a 128G 16 core machine if it has 300M docs....
Which is a way of saying "ya gotta test with your data/query mix"..... Wish there was a better answer. Erick On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Ian Rose <ianr...@fullstory.com> wrote: > Hi all - > > I'm sure this topic has been covered before but I was unable to find any > clear references online or in the mailing list. > > Are there any rules of thumb for how many cores (aka shards, since I am > using SolrCloud) is "too many" for one machine? I realize there is no one > answer (depends on size of the machine, etc.) so I'm just looking for a > rough idea. Something like the following would be very useful: > > * People commonly run up to X cores/shards on a mid-sized (4 or 8 core) > server without any problems. > * I have never heard of anyone successfully running X cores/shards on a > single machine, even if you throw a lot of hardware at it. > > Thanks! > - Ian
