First, there is no "master" node, just leaders and replicas. But that's a nit.
No real clue why you would be going out of memory. Deleting a document, even by query should just mark the docs as deleted, a pretty low-cost operation. how much memory are you giving the JVM? Best, Erick On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Vinay Pothnis <poth...@gmail.com> wrote: > [solr version 4.3.1] > > Hello, > > I have a solr cloud (4 nodes - 2 shards) with a fairly large amount > documents (~360G of index per shard). Now, a major portion of the data is > not required and I need to delete those documents. I would need to delete > around 75% of the data. > > One of the solutions could be to drop the index completely re-index. But > this is not an option at the moment. > > When we tried to delete the data through a query - say 1 day/month's worth > of data. But after deleting just 1 month's worth of data, the master node > is going out of memory - heap space. > > Wondering is there any way to incrementally delete the data without > affecting the cluster adversely. > > Thank! > Vinay
