On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:35 PM, swarag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently looking through the source, but just wanted to verify how > shards work. If a request is made to: > > http://localhost:8983/solr/select?shards=localhost:8983/solr,localhost:7574/solr > > Does the 8983 instance of Solr make an http request to both 7574 AND 8983 to > search? Or does it know that itself is 8983 and only make the http request > to 7574 while running the search on itself locally? > > The source code seems to tell me that it uses the former (makes an http > request to itself), but I just wanted to make sure.
Right. Trying to optimize this was very low on my list since it creates a different code path (even more potential for bugs), and any gains would likely be very small (now that we have a binary format for communication). -Yonik
