On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure if there is a issue open, but I know I've talked w/ Yonik about 
> this and a few other changes to the DirectUpdateHandler2 in the past.  It 
> does indeed need to be fixed.

It stems from the APIs that were available at the time in Lucene 1.4.
IIRC, Mark worked up a patch that avoided ever closing the reader I
think, and delegated more of the concurrency control to Lucene (since
it can handle it these days).  I think maybe there was just a problem
with rollback or something...

-Yonik
http://www.lucidimagination.com




> -Grant
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Renaud Delbru wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> thanks for your answer.
>> Do the Solr team is aware of the problem ? Is there an issue opened about 
>> this, or ongoing work about that ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Renaud Delbru
>>
>> On 16/12/10 16:45, Michael McCandless wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, (I think?) Solr currently commits by closing the
>>> IndexWriter, which must wait for any running merges to complete, and
>>> then opening a new one.
>>>
>>> This is really rather silly because IndexWriter has had its own commit
>>> method (which does not block ongoing indexing nor merging) for quite
>>> some time now.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why we haven't switched over already... there must be
>>> some trickiness involved.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Renaud Delbru<renaud.del...@deri.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> See log at [1].
>>>> We are using the latest snapshot of lucene_branch3.1. We have configured
>>>> Solr to use the ConcurrentMergeScheduler:
>>>> <mergeScheduler class="org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler"/>
>>>>
>>>> When a commit() runs, it blocks indexing (all imcoming update requests are
>>>> blocked until the commit operation is finished) ... at the end of the log 
>>>> we
>>>> notice a 4 minute gap during which none of the solr cients trying to add
>>>> data receive any attention.
>>>> This is a bit annoying as it leads to timeout exception on the client side.
>>>> Here, the commit time is only 4 minutes, but it can be larger if there are
>>>> merges of large segments
>>>> I thought Solr was able to handle commits and updates at the same time: the
>>>> commit operation should be done in the background, and the server still
>>>> continue to receive update requests (maybe at a slower rate than normal).
>>>> But it looks like it is not the case. Is it a normal behaviour ?
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://pastebin.com/KPkusyVb
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> --
>>>> Renaud Delbru
>>>>
>>
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