Hey Brad, > This leads me to believe that a single merge thread is blocking indexing from > occuring. > When this happens our producers, which distribute their updates amongst all > the shards, pile up on this shard and wait. Which version of Solr you are using? Have you tried 4.0 beta?
* http://searchhub.org/dev/2011/04/09/solr-dev-diary-solr-and-near-real-time-search/ * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2565 Alexey
