Hi, Routing is not random... have a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2341 . In short, you shouldn't have to route manually from your app.
Otis -- Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Furkan KAMACI <furkankam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Otis; > > Firstly thanks for your answers. So do you mean that hashing mechanism will > randomly route a document into a randomly shard? I want to ask it because I > consider about putting a load balancer in front of my SolrCloud and > manually route some documents into some other shards to avoid bottleneck. > > 2013/4/17 Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> > >> They won't be exact, but should be close. Are you seeing some *big* >> differences? >> >> Otis >> -- >> Solr & ElasticSearch Support >> http://sematext.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Furkan KAMACI <furkankam...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Is it possible that different shards have different number of documents >> or >> > does SolrCloud balance them? >> > >> > I ask this question because I want to learn the mechanism behind how Solr >> > calculete hash value of the identifier of the document. Is it possible >> that >> > hash function produces more documents into one of the shards other than >> any >> > of shards. (because this may cause a bottleneck at some leaders of >> > SolrCloud) >>
