You can use a timeout? In our system we do that same but with a timeout of
around 30 minutes for any replication to slave completes. So far any
replication > 30 minutes (even for cores as big as 10G) indicated a
problem with a core or network on our side
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Fermin Silva <ferm...@olx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that's what I'm trying. I'm however really cautious when it comes to a
> while (somethingIsTrue) { doSomething; sleep; }
>
> Is that safe? What if the slave hungs up, the network is slow/fails, etc?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Chris W <chris1980....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > You can use the "details" command to check the status of replication.
> > http://localhost:8983/solr/core_name/replication?command=details
> >
> > The command returns an xml output and look out for the "isReplicating"
> > field in the output. Keep running the command in a loop until the flag
> > becomes false. Thats when you know its done. I would also recommend you
> to
> > check the # of docs in the output at source/destination after the
> > replication to be sure
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Fermin Silva <ferm...@olx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we are moving to native replication with SOLR 3.5.1.
> > > Because we want to control the replication from another program (a cron
> > > job), we decided to curl the slave to issue a fetchIndex command.
> > >
> > > The problem we have is that the curl returns immediately, while the
> > > replication still goes in the background.
> > > We need to know when the replication is done, and then resume the cron
> > job.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to block on the replication call until it's done similar
> > to
> > > waitForSearcher=true when committing ?
> > > If not, what other possibilities we have?
> > >
> > > Just in case, here is the solrconfig part in the slave (we pass
> masterUrl
> > > in the curl url)
> > >
> > > <requestHandler name="/replication" class="solr.ReplicationHandler">
> > > <lst name="slave">
> > > <str name="masterUrl"></str>
> > > </lst>
> > > </requestHandler>
> > >
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance
> > >
> > > --
> > > Fermin Silva
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best
> > --
> > C
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Fermin Silva
> Speed & Scalability Team
>
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