Thanks for the reply Tim.
Can you diff the listings of the index data directories on a leader vs.
replica?
It was a good tip, and mirrors some stuff we have been exploring in house
as well. The leaders all have additional 'index.' directories on disk,
but we have come to the conclusion that
Hi Greg,
Sorry for the slow response. The general thinking is that you
shouldn't worry about which nodes host leaders vs. replicas because A)
that can change, and B) as you say, the additional responsibilities
for leader nodes is quite minimal (mainly per-doc version management
and then
Hi all,
We launched our new production instance of SolrCloud last week and since
then have noticed a trend with regards to disk usage. The non-leader
replicas all seem to be self-optimizing their index segments as expected,
but the leaders have (on average) around 33% more data on disk. My
