That's great Mark. Thx. One final question... all the stuff to do with autowarming and static warming of caches - I presume all of that configuration is still relevant (if less so) as you still need to warm caches on a soft commit, even if those caches are much smaller than they would be otherwise?
Thanks! Upayavira On Thu, Jan 10, 2013, at 04:18 PM, Mark Miller wrote: > There is no need to open a Searcher because you are controlling > visibility through the faster 'soft' commit. That will reopen the reader > from the IndexWriter. Because of that, there is no reason to do a heavy, > non NRT Searcher reopen on hard commits. Essentially, the hard commit > becomes simply about periodically flushing the tlog and the soft commit > completely controls visibility. > > - Mark > > On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > And you don't need to open a searcher (openSearcher=false) because > > you've got caches built up already alongside the in-memory NRT segment > > which you can continue to use once the hard commit has happened? Is that > > correct? > > > > (sorry for hijacking the thread - hopefully it is somewhat relevant) > > > > Upayavira > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013, at 02:18 PM, Mark Miller wrote: > >> Setup hard auto commit with openSeacher=false. I would do it at least > >> once a minute. Don't worry about the commit being out of sync on the > >> different nodes - you will be using soft commits for visibility. The hard > >> commits will just be about relieving the pressure on the tlog. > >> > >> - Mark > >> > >> On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:43 AM, gadde <gadde....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> we have a SolrCloud with 3 nodes. we add documents to leader node and use > >>> commitwithin(100secs) option in SolrJ to add documents. AutoSoftCommit in > >>> SolrConfig is 1000ms. > >>> > >>> Transaction logs on replicas grew bigger than the index and we ran out of > >>> disk space in few days. Leader's tlogs are very small in few hundred MBs. > >>> > >>> The following post suggest hard commit is required for "relieving the > >>> memory > >>> pressure of the transactionlog" > >>> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SolrCloud-is-softcommit-cluster-wide-for-the-collection-td4021584.html#a4021631 > >>> > >>> what is the best way to do a hard commit on this setup in SolrCloud? > >>> > >>> a. Through autoCommit in SolrConfig? which would cause hard commit on all > >>> the nodes at different times b. Trigger hard commit on leader while > >>> updating > >>> through SolrJ? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Shyam > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> View this message in context: > >>> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SolrCloud-large-transaction-logs-tp4032160.html > >>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> >