On Dec 6, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote:
> I mean, there must be some hard-core downside, other than that you can't lose > any more nodes. Nope, not really. You just can't lose any more nodes. Technically, you will also lose a bit of read performance - but write performance generally declines with more nodes, so you'd also gain a bit of write performance. But for Solr this should matter little to none. - Mark