Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Venkatesh Seetharam
Thanks Hoss for the clarification. I think I can make a copy of the index for searching and rename 'em. I think I can work around this one but good to know the bigger picture. Venkatesh On 3/8/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I'm struck with Solr requiring an index directory u

Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I'm struck with Solr requiring an index directory under dataDir configured : in SolrConfig. Why does it not take a complete path_to_index configured : under dataDir but append "index"? Is there anyway I can workaround this? i think at one time we were assuming there might be other types of dat

Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Venkatesh Seetharam
Thanks Yonik and Chris for your confirmation. Chris, these are read-only index partitions. I perform updates/deletions on a master index which will be snapshotted at some fixed intervals. I'll look into the Collection Distribution of Solr. Sounds very powerful. I'm struck with Solr requiring an i

Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Hostetter
: > Can I point 2 Solr instances to the same index partition, having the same : > path in SolrConfig? : : Yes, that should work fine. you might run into some weirdness if you send updates/delets to both instances .. basically you'll want to configure all but one instace as a "slave" and anytime y

Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 3/8/07, Venkatesh Seetharam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can I point 2 Solr instances to the same index partition, having the same path in SolrConfig? Yes, that should work fine. -Yonik

Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Venkatesh Seetharam
Thanks for the reply Yonik. I'm not using HTTP and using a wrapper to wrap Solr for searching. I'm using RPC to talk to multiple servers. Can I point 2 Solr instances to the same index partition, having the same path in SolrConfig? Is this safe or I need to make 2 copies of the same index partit

Re: HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 3/8/07, Venkatesh Seetharam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy. I'd like to know if I can configure Multiple Solr instances working with a single read-only index partition for failover/HA and load balancing purposes. Or is there any other way that Solr has built-in features to handle the same.

HA and load balancing Qauestion

2007-03-08 Thread Venkatesh Seetharam
Hello there, Howdy. I'd like to know if I can configure Multiple Solr instances working with a single read-only index partition for failover/HA and load balancing purposes. Or is there any other way that Solr has built-in features to handle the same. Any ideas/thoughts are greatly appreciated.