On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Justin Babuscio wrote: > Solr v3.5.0 > 8 Master Shards > 2 Slaves Per Master > > Confirming that there are no active records being written, the "numFound" > value is decreasing as we page through the results. > > For example, > Page1 - numFound = 3683 > Page2 - numFound = 3683 > Page3 - numFound = 3683 > Page4 - numFound = 2866 > Page5 - numFound = 2419 > Page5 - numFound = 1898 > Page6 - numFound = 1898 > ... > PageN - numFound = 1898 > > > > It looks like it eventually settles on the real count. Is this a > limitation when using a distributed cluster or is the numFound always > intended to give an approximately similar to how Google responds with total > hits?
numFound should return the real count for any given query. How are you sepcifying which shards/cores to use for each query? Does this change between queries?