Re: Leader node on specific host machines?

2019-11-06 Thread Koen De Groote
Hello Erick, Sorry for the late reply. I worked with this setting a bit and it works as expected. Indeed, I was not aware of the leader/follower task distribution and what you say shines a different light on things. Regardless, I now know about this property and can use it effectively, which I c

Re: Leader node on specific host machines?

2019-10-28 Thread Erick Erickson
There’s the preferredLeader property, see: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/collections-api.html That said, this was put in for situations where there were 100s of shards with replicas from many shards hosted on any given machine, so it was possible in that setup to have 100 or more lea

Leader node on specific host machines?

2019-10-28 Thread Koen De Groote
Hello, I'm looking for a way to configure my collections as such that the leader nodes of specific collections never share the same host. This as a way to prevent several large and/or heavy-usage collections on the same machine. Is this something I can set in solrconfig.xml? Or are there rules f