I just ditched my Tomcat set up because I was having issues getting the
nodes to work correctly, so I just went with the native jetty server.
Everything just works.


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Jared Griffith <jgriff...@picsauditing.com
> wrote:

> So it all depends on your implementation and server restrictions.  I'm
> just going to set it up with Tomcat to get it running "correctly" but I
> might just go with the native jetty server down the road when this is "for
> real".
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote:
>
>> On 8/29/2013 12:08 PM, Jared Griffith wrote:
>>
>>> Is it more ideal to run the Jetty containers as opposed to running Tomcat
>>> with the Solr war?
>>>
>>
>> If I answer "yes" to that question, it's not really the whole story. Just
>> like the "vi vs. emacs" battle, it can become almost a religious debate.
>>  Having said that, generally speaking, jetty is more ideal for Solr than
>> Tomcat.
>>
>> Jetty is the only container that receives official testing.  Anytime
>> anyone runs Solr unit tests after checking out the source code, Jetty gets
>> tested.  Tomcat only gets tested when users install Solr in it. Bugs
>> related to tomcat are sometimes found.  They are relatively rare, but they
>> do happen.
>>
>> If a user really knows tomcat internals and how to tune it for specific
>> applications, they could probably make their tomcat Solr install run
>> circles around Jetty.
>>
>> The Jetty install that comes with Solr, in addition to being stripped of
>> all unnecessary features, has been lightly tuned so it works better with
>> Solr than a stock Jetty.  It will have less memory overhead than a stock
>> Tomcat, because it's smaller.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shawn
>>
>>
>
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