On 7/16/2015 5:51 AM, SolrUser2015 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?
SolrCloud will distribute individual queries to different replicas, so over time the entire cloud will be used. The leader role shouldn't affect queries, that role is mostly there for indexing and fault handling. If you are really concerned about this, you can assign preferred leaders and then ask Solr to reshuffle them. I have never used this functionality. Here's the documentation on it: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API#CollectionsAPI-RebalanceLeaders Thanks, Shawn
