You might be hitting: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7361
Note that the fix is in the (currently releasing) 5.3 and trunk code, with virtually no possibility of back-porting to 4.0, unfortunately. Best, Erick On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Gilles Comeau <gilles.com...@polecat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this has been asked before, my online searching is not bringing up > any answers. > > If I have two shards on different servers with zookeeper, Core1 and Core2, in > a collection that are identical to each other, why won't Core1 return any > results while Core2 is starting up? If Core1 is up and Core2 is down, > everything is fine, but while Core2 is starting, it just waits. SOLR 4.0. > > It's a bit killer when you have 40 cores per server and you wait a long time > for them to start up, and the whole cluster won't respond while this is > happening. Maybe there is a config setting I am missing or something? > > Cheers, > > Gilles