Hi James,
That is very odd behavior! I'm not sure what causing it at the moment, but
that is not a great way to get all of the core names anyway. It also gathers
a *lot* of information for each core that you don't need, including index
statistic from Luke. Its very heavy weight for what you want. So while I
hope we get to the bottom of this, here is what I would recommend:
Create your own plugin RequestHandler. This is very simple - often they just
extend RequestHandlerBase, but for this you don't even need to. You can
leave most of the RequestHandler methods unimplemented if you'd like - you
just want to override/add to:
public void handleRequest(SolrQueryRequest req, SolrQueryResponse rsp)
and in that method you can have a very simple impl:
Collection<String> names =
req.getCore().getCoreDescriptor().getCoreContainer().getCoreNames();
rsp.add("cores", names);
// if the cores are dynamic, you prob don't want to cache
rsp.setHttpCaching(false);
Then just plug your simple RequestHandler into {solr.home}/lib and add it to
solrconfig.xml.
You might also add a JIRA issue requesting the feature for future versions -
but that's prob the best solution for 1.3 - I'm not see the functionality
there.
--
- Mark
http://www.lucidimagination.com
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:02 PM, James Brady <james.colin.br...@gmail.com>wrote:
> The Solr application I'm working on has many concurrently active cores - of
> the order of 1000s at a time.
>
> The management application depends on being able to query Solr for the
> current set of live cores, a requirement I've been satisfying using the
> STATUS core admin handler method.
>
> However, once the number of active cores reaches a particular threshold
> (which I haven't determined exactly), the response to the STATUS method is
> truncated, resulting in malformed XML.
>
> My debugging so far has revealed:
>
> - when doing STATUS queries from the local machine, they succeed,
> untruncated, >90% of the time
> - when local STATUS queries do fail, they are always truncated to the
> same length: 73685 bytes in my case
> - when doing STATUS queries from a remote machine, they fail due to
> truncation every time
> - remote STATUS queries are always truncated to the same length: 24704
> bytes in my case
> - the failing STATUS queries take visibly longer to complete on the
> client - a few seconds for a truncated result versus <1 second for an
> untruncated result
> - all STATUS queries return a successful 200 HTTP code
> - all STATUS queries are logged as returning in ~700ms in Solr's info log
> - during failing (truncated) responses, Solr's CPU usage spikes to
> saturation
> - behaviour seems the same whatever client I use: wget, curl, Python, ...
>
> Using Solr 1.3.0 694707, Jetty 6.1.3.
>
> At the moment, the main puzzles for me are that the local and remote
> behaviour is so different. It leads me to think that it is something to do
> with the network transmission speed. But the response really isn't that big
> (untruncated it's ~1MB), and the CPU spike seems to suggest that something
> in the process of serialising the core information is taking too long and
> causing a timeout?
>
> Any suggestions on settings to tweak, ways to get extra debug information,
> or ascertain the active core list in some other way would be much
> appreciated!
>
> James
>
