Hi, there was some talk on JIRA about whether Multicore would be able
to manage tens of thousands of cores, and dynamically create hundreds
every day:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-350?
focusedCommentId=12571282#action_12571282
The issue of multicore configuration was left open in SOLR-350 (I
don't think a new issue was opened?), so it's not clear to me if what
Otis described will be possible in the 1.3 timeframe.
Can anyone involved in SOLR-350 elaborate on how dynamic creation,
closing and opening of cores will work in the future?
A real-world deployment of this would require associated admin tasks
for each core too: setting up cron jobs, enabling and starting rsync
and so on, so core configuration via Solr isn't a requirement for me:
I can script the creation and configuration of a new core directory
alongside the other admin tasks.
The open questions are whether I'll be able to notify Solr that there
is a pre-configured core ready to be used - i.e. the configuration set
in multicore.xml, and whether this multi-multi-core approach will
scale to the levels that Otis mentioned.
Thanks!
James.
