I have a collection with 1 billion documents and I want to delete 500 of them. The collection has a dozen shards and a couple replicas. Using Solr 4.4.
Sent the delete query via HTTP: http://hostname:8983/solr/my_collection/update?stream.body= <delete><query>source:foo</query></delete> Took a couple minutes and several replicas got knocked into Recovery mode. They eventually came back and the desired docs were deleted but the cluster wasn't thrilled (high load, etc). Is this expected behavior? Is there a better way to delete documents that I'm missing? Thanks, Ryan
