Whatever it is , there should be no NPE. could be a bug On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Shai Erera <ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to try out the (relatively) new replica placement strategy and how > it plays with shard splitting. So I set up a 4-node cluster, created a > collection with 1 shard and 2 replicas (each created on a different) node. > > When I issue a SPLITSHARD command (without any rules set on the collection), > the split finishes successfully and the state of the cluster is: > > n1: s1_r1 (INACTIVE), s1_0_r1, s1_1_r1 > n2: s1_r2 (INACTIVE), s1_0_r2 > n3: s1_1_r2 > n4: empty > > So far as expected, since the shard splitting occurred on n1, the two sub > shards were created there, and then Solr filled the missing replicas on > nodes 2 and 3. Also the source shard s1 was set to INACTIVE and I did not > delete it (in the test). > > Then I tried the same, curious if I set the right rule, one of the > sub-shards' replicas will move to the 4th node, so I end up w/ a "balanced" > cluster. So I created the collection with the rule: > "shard:**,replica:<2,node:*", which per the ref guide says that I should end > with no more than one replica per shard on every node. Per my understanding, > I should end up with either 2 nodes each holding one replica of each shard, > 3 nodes holding a mixture of replicas or 4 nodes each holds exactly one > replica. > > However, while observing the cluster status I noticed that the two created > sub-shards are marked as ACTIVE and leader, while the two others are marked > in DOWN. Turning on INFO logging I found this: > > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at > org.apache.solr.cloud.rule.Rule.getNumberOfNodesWithSameTagVal(Rule.java:168) > at org.apache.solr.cloud.rule.Rule.tryAssignNodeToShard(Rule.java:130) at > org.apache.solr.cloud.rule.ReplicaAssigner.tryAPermutationOfRules(ReplicaAssigner.java:252) > at > org.apache.solr.cloud.rule.ReplicaAssigner.tryAllPermutations(ReplicaAssigner.java:203) > at > org.apache.solr.cloud.rule.ReplicaAssigner.getNodeMappings0(ReplicaAssigner.java:174) > at > org.apache.solr.cloud.rule.ReplicaAssigner.getNodeMappings(ReplicaAssigner.java:135) > at org.apache.solr.cloud.Assign.getNodesViaRules(Assign.java:211) at > org.apache.solr.cloud.Assign.getNodesForNewReplicas(Assign.java:179) at > org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.addReplica(OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.java:2204) > at > org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.splitShard(OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.java:1212) > > I also tried with the rule "replica:<2,node:*" which yielded the same NPE. I > run on 5.4.1 and I couldn't find if this is something that was fixed in > 5.5.0/master already. So the question is -- is this a bug or did I > misconfigure the rule? > > And as a side question, is there any rule which I can configure so that the > split shards are distributed evenly in the cluster? Or currently SPLITSHARD > will always result in the created shards existing on the origin node, and > it's my responsibility to move them elsewhere? > > Shai
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