Allow me to quote Mark via StackOverflow: ** In solr.xml, add a cores attribute of leaderVoteWait=0. It defaults to 180000 (3 minutes).
This is simply to protect against starting the cluster with an old node - you don't want it to become the leader before other nodes get to participate in the election - so we wait until the known replicas are up to ensure they can participate in the election. If you are careful to not start the cluster in a way that an out of data node comes up before up to date nodes, it's not necessary. Mark ** Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15674529/solrcloud-replica-waiting-time-configuration Thanks, Greg On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Software Dev <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > How is this accomplished? We currently have an empty solr.xml > (auto-discovery) so I'm not sure where to put this value?