This seems very weird. Do the Zookeepers know about each other correctly? Some evidence for mis-configured Zookeepers might be if you rebooted ZK3 and had this happen again.
But that's a wild shot in the dark. Best, Erick On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 4:42 PM, The Dobbo <ozb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a 3 external node ZK (zookeeper-3.4.8) cluster managing my 6 node > solrcloud (solr 6.1) cluster. Recently due to dirty cow I had to reboot my > Solr and zookeeper clusters. I rebooted the solr nodes one by one and all was > fine. I then rebooted zookeeper nodes 1 and 2 (with at least 10 minute delay > between reboots) and again all was fine - no errors reported in zookeepers > RUOK, solcloud cluster health was all green. When I rebooted ZK 3 solr > reported it could no longer connect to ZK and all the leaders lost their > replicas. After a short time solr started rebuilding its replicas (it > recovered all automagically) - I didn’t restart solr. The only issue was a > spike in load on the solr leaders. > > My best guess is that solrcloud doesn’t reconnect effectively if a zookeeper > node disappears for a period (zkClientTimeout is set to 15 sec (15000)). > > Relevant config in start-up script: -DzkClientTimeout=1500 > -DzkHost=zookeeper01:2181,zookeeper02:2181,zookeeper03:2181/solr/production > > My questions: > Has anyone experienced this upon rebooting zookeeper? Any advice if anything > I did above was wrong? - should I increase zkClientTimeout? > Any monitoring that would alert me that solr has an issue connecting to an > individual ZK node (well that would have alerted me before I rebooted ZK3). > Any other relevant info from the docs I should be reading? (I believe have > read/looked relatively exhaustively) > > Thanks, let me know if further info is required, I unfortunately didn’t > collect logs for this period. My next step is to reproduce in non-prod (but > thought I’d reach out first). > - Brendan >