I'm looking at the cloud graph in the admin UI. The black dots with green indicates same node as leader for three shards out of five.
Regards > On 16 jul 2015, at 14:31, Esther-Melaine Quansah > <esther.quan...@lucidworks.com> wrote: > > If you’ve set numShards to 5, then your indexes are split evenly across all 5 > shards and they should all be considered leaders in charge of updating the > replicas with new information. Could it be the case that 1 of your shards has > 3 replicas and is the leader for that specific shard? What specifically is > indicating that one node is marked as leader for 3 shards? > > Thanks, > > Esther Quansah > >> On Jul 16, 2015, at 7:51 AM, SolrUser2015 <solr.user.1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm new to solr! >> >> So downloaded version 5.2 and modified the solr file so it allows me to >> create a 5 node cluster: >> >>> 5 shards and replication factor 3 < >> >> Now I see that one node is marked as leader for 3 shards. >> >> So my question is, how can 1 node serve requests for 3 shards, wouldn't that >> be uneven distribution of load? >> >> Regards >