What version of Solr?
When you look at the logs, does a new SolrCore look like it comes up right away?
It sounds like perhaps the old SolrCore is still serving requests - how long do
you wait before trying to restart jetty?
Anything interesting in the logs around that time?
- Mark Miller
lucidimagination.com
On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Tanguy Moal wrote:
> Dear list,
> I've experienced a weird (unexpected?) behaviour concerning core reload on a
> master instance.
>
> My setup :
> master/slave on separate hosts.
>
> On the master, I update the schema.xml file, adding a dynamic field of type
> random sort field.
>
> I reload the master using core admin.
>
> The new field is *not* taken into account.
>
> I restart the servlet container (jetty in my case).
>
> The new field is taken into account, I can perform random sort operations.
>
> On the slave side, no problem : at startup the schema.xml replicated, the
> core reloaded, and I was able to perform random sorts as well.
>
> Now the question is : what was wrong with the core reload on the master ?
> The output it gave to me was something like : "sort param field can't be
> found : ${fieldName}".
> At this point, in admin/schema view, the schema showing up was indeed showing
> the freshly added dynamic field.
> I had to restart jetty (not a big issue here, but just to be sure).
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Tanguy
