Let's make a quick differentiation between PRE and POST processors in a Solr Cloud atchitecture :
"In a single node, stand-alone Solr, each update is run through all the update processors in a chain exactly once. But the behavior of update request processors in SolrCloud deserves special consideration. " cit. wiki *PRE PROCESSORS* All the processors defined BEFORE the distributedUpdateProcessor happen ONLY on the first node that receive the update ( regardless if it is a leader or a replica ). *POST PROCESSORS* The distributedUpdateProcessor will forward the update request to the the correct leader ( or multiple leaders if the request involves more shards), the leader will then forward to the replicas. The leaders and replicas at this point will execute all the update request processors defined AFTER the distributedUpdateProcessor. " Pre-processors and Atomic Updates Because DistributedUpdateProcessor is responsible for processing Atomic Updates into full documents on the leader node, this means that pre-processors which are executed only on the forwarding nodes can only operate on the partial document. If you have a processor which must process a full document then the only choice is to specify it as a post-processor." wiki In your example, your chain is definitely messed up, the order is important and you want your heavy processing to happen only on the first node. For better info and clarification: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Schemaless+Mode ( you can find here a working alternative to your chain) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Update+Request+Processors ----- --------------- Alessandro Benedetti Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director Sease Ltd. - www.sease.io -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/DistributedUpdateProcessorFactory-was-explicitly-disabled-from-this-updateRequestProcessorChain-tp4319154p4331215.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.