1) Is there any information on preferred maximum sizes for a single solr index. I've read some people say 10 million, some say 80 million, etc... Is there any official recommendation or has anyone experimented with large datasets into the tens of billions?
2) Is there any down side to running multiple solr shard instances on a single machine rather than one shard instance with a larger index per machine? I would think that having 5 instances with 1/5 the index would return results approx 5 times faster. 3) Say you have a solr configuration with multiple shards. If you attempt to query while one of the shards is down you will receive a HTTP 500 on the client due to a connection refused on the server. Is there a way to tell the server to ignore this and return as many results as possible? In other words if you have 100 shards, it is possible that occasionally a process may die, but I would still like to return results from the active shards. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/General-questions-about-distributed-solr-shards-tp1095117p1095117.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
