We just switched to Solrj from a home-grown client and we have a huge jump in the number of connections to the server, enough that our load balancer was rejecting connections in production tonight.
Does that sound familiar? We're running 1.3. I set the timeouts and connection pools to the same values I'd used in my other code, also based on HTTPClient. We can roll back to my code temporarily, but we want some of the Solrj facet support for a new project. wunder