Thanks guys! I will be quite happy to remove the unnecessary complexity from our code.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Miller [mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:28 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Do commits block updates in SOLR 1.4? Solr handles all of this concurrency for you - it's actually even a little too aggressive about that these days, as Lucene has changed a lot - but yes - you can add while committing and commit while adding - Solr will block itself as needed. - Mark On 9/3/10 1:27 PM, Robert Petersen wrote: > So you are saying we definitely do not need to pause ADD activity on other > threads while we send the COMMIT? And the same goes with AUTOCOMMIT right? > > We are using SOLR 1.4 now. We were on 1.3 previously. We pretty much just > assumed pausing ADDs during COMMITs was required by SOLR when we designed our > indexing system, mostly due to our experience with an older and different > search engine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lance Norskog [mailto:goks...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 6:10 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Do commits block updates in SOLR 1.4? > > Yes, indexing synchronized during commits. You can call commit all you > want, and index docs, and commit will finish and then indexing will > restart. Previous Solr release did this also; how far back is your > existing Solr? > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Robert Petersen <rober...@buy.com> wrote: >> Hello sorry to bother but does anyone know the answer to this? This is >> the closest thing I can find on the subject: >> >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Autocommit-blocking-adds-AutoCommit-S >> peedup-td498465.html >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Petersen [mailto:rober...@buy.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:35 AM >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Do commits block updates in SOLR 1.4? >> >> I can't seem to find a definitive answer. I have ten threads doing my >> indexing and I block all the threads when one is ready to do a commit so >> no adds are done until the commit finishes. Is this still required in >> SOLR 1.4 or could I take it out? I tried testing this on a separate >> small index where I set autocommit in solrconfig and seem to have no >> issues just continuously adding documents from multiple threads to it >> despite its commit activity. I'd like to do the same in my big main >> index, is it safe? >> >> >> >> Also, is there any difference in behavior between autocommits and >> explicit commits in this regard? >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >
