: I've been using cursorMark for quite a while, but I noticed that sometimes : the value is huge (more than 8K). It results in Request-URI Too Long
FWIW: cursorMark values are simple "string safe" encoded forms of sort fields -- so my guess is you are sorting on some really long string values? general speeaking, indepdent of cursorMark, you might want to see if you can normalize/truncate some of the string fields you are sorting ... should improve distributed sort performance overall. -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/