Bram Van Dam created SOLR-14581:
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             Summary: Document the way auto commits work in SolrCloud
                 Key: SOLR-14581
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14581
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
          Components: documentation, SolrCloud
            Reporter: Bram Van Dam


The documentation is unclear about how auto commits actually work in SolrCloud. 
A mailing list reply by Erick Erickson proved to be enlightening. 

Erick's reply verbatim:
{quote}Each node has its own timer that starts when it receives an update.
So in your situation, 60 seconds after any give replica gets it’s first
update, all documents that have been received in the interval will
be committed.

But note several things:

1> commits will tend to cluster for a given shard. By that I mean
    they’ll tend to happen within a few milliseconds of each other
   ‘cause it doesn’t take that long for an update to get from the
   leader to all the followers.

2> this is per replica. So if you host replicas from multiple collections
   on some node, their commits have no relation to each other. And
   say for some reason you transmit exactly one document that lands
   on shard1. Further, say nodeA contains replicas for shard1 and shard2.
   Only the replica for shard1 would commit.

3> Solr promises eventual consistency. In this case, due to all the
   timing variables it is not guaranteed that every replica of a single
   shard has the same document available for search at any given time.
   Say doc1 hits the leader at time T and a follower at time T+10ms.
   Say doc2 hits the leader and gets indexed 5ms before the 
   commit is triggered, but for some reason it takes 15ms for it to get
   to the follower. The leader will be able to search doc2, but the
  follower won’t until 60 seconds later.{quote}

Perhaps the subject deserves a section of its own, but I'll attach a patch 
which includes the gist of Erick's reply as a Tip in the "indexing in 
SolrCloud"-section.



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