Github user satishd commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/977#discussion_r48931925 --- Diff: external/storm-solr/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/solr/bolt/SolrUpdateBolt.java --- @@ -92,11 +94,19 @@ private void ack(Tuple tuple) throws SolrServerException, IOException { if (commitStgy == null) { collector.ack(tuple); } else { - toCommitTuples.add(tuple); - commitStgy.update(); - if (commitStgy.commit()) { + if (TupleUtils.isTick(tuple)) { + LOG.debug("TICK! forcing solr client commit"); + collector.ack(tuple); --- End diff -- I am also not sure why tick-tuples need to be acked as @arunmahadevan mentioned. Whenever an executor is started it schedules a timer which sends tick tuples to receive queue ``` clojure (defn setup-ticks! [worker executor-data] (let [storm-conf (:storm-conf executor-data) tick-time-secs (storm-conf TOPOLOGY-TICK-TUPLE-FREQ-SECS) receive-queue (:receive-queue executor-data) context (:worker-context executor-data)] (when tick-time-secs (if (or (Utils/isSystemId (:component-id executor-data)) (and (= false (storm-conf TOPOLOGY-ENABLE-MESSAGE-TIMEOUTS)) (= :spout (:type executor-data)))) (log-message "Timeouts disabled for executor " (:component-id executor-data) ":" (:executor-id executor-data)) (schedule-recurring (:user-timer worker) tick-time-secs tick-time-secs (fn [] (let [val [(AddressedTuple. AddressedTuple/BROADCAST_DEST (TupleImpl. context [tick-time-secs] Constants/SYSTEM_TASK_ID Constants/SYSTEM_TICK_STREAM_ID))]] (disruptor/publish receive-queue val)))))))) ```
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