Hi, trying to experiment with overcharging on our Solr 4.7.2 cluster and called SPLITSHARD command which after ~30 minutes of work failed with
curl "http://solrhost:1234/solr/admin/collections?collection=acme&shard=shard1&action=SPLITSHARD" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">500</int><int name="QTime">836129</int></lst><lst name="success"><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1499</int></lst><str name="core">elmar_v3_shard1_1_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1507</int></lst><str name="core">elmar_v3_shard1_0_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1002</int></lst></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1001</int></lst></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">713458</int></lst></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1</int></lst><str name="core">elmar_v3_shard1_0_replica1</str><str name="status">EMPTY_BUFFER</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1</int></lst><str name="core">elmar_v3_shard1_1_replica1</str><str name="status">EMPTY_BUFFER</str></lst></lst><str name="Operation splitshard caused exception:">java.util.EmptyStackException:java.util.EmptyStackException</str><lst name="exception"><null name="msg"/><int name="rspCode">-1</int></lst><lst name="error"><str name="trace">org.apache.solr.common.SolrException at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CollectionsHandler.handleResponse(CollectionsHandler.java:248) at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CollectionsHandler.handleSplitShardAction(CollectionsHandler.java:484) at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CollectionsHandler.handleRequestBody(CollectionsHandler.java:165) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.handleAdminRequest(SolrDispatchFilter.java:720) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:265) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:205) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1419) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:455) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:557) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1075) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:384) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1009) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:154) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:370) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handleRequest(BlockingHttpConnection.java:53) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:949) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1011) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:644) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:235) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handle(BlockingHttpConnection.java:72) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.bio.SocketConnector$ConnectorEndPoint.run(SocketConnector.java:264) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:608) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:543) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) </str><int name="code">500</int></lst> </response> It also seems that for 30 minutes it was very slow and not even half way done: acme@solrhost:/var/lib/solr/cores$ du -h acme_shard1_replica1/ 271M acme_shard1_replica1/data/tlog 5.4G acme_shard1_replica1/data/index 5.7G acme_shard1_replica1/data 5.7G acme_shard1_replica1/ acme@solrhost:/var/lib/solr/cores$ du -h acme_shard1_1_replica1/ 4.0K acme_shard1_1_replica1/data/tlog 1004M acme_shard1_1_replica1/data/index 1004M acme_shard1_1_replica1/data 1004M acme_shard1_1_replica1/ acme@solrhost:/var/lib/solr/cores$ du -h acme_shard1_0_replica1/ 4.0K acme_shard1_0_replica1/data/tlog 898M acme_shard1_0_replica1/data/index 898M acme_shard1_0_replica1/data 898M acme_shard1_0_replica1/ What is the recommended cleanup strategy? Also is there a way for me run the command successfully on my end without upgrading? Cheers, Oliver