Re: Scaling Solr - Suggestions !!

2012-04-30 Thread Sujatha Arun
I was copying the indexes from webapp to cores ,when this happened .It could have been an error from my end ,but just worried that an issue with one core would reflect on webapp . Regards Sujatha On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > I'd get to the root of why indexes are cor

Re: Scaling Solr - Suggestions !!

2012-04-30 Thread Erick Erickson
I'd get to the root of why indexes are corrupt! This should be very unusual. If you're seeing this at all frequently, it indicates something is very wrong and starting bunches of JVMs up is a band-aid over a much more serious problem. Are you, by chance, doing a kill -9? or other hard-abort? Best

Re: Scaling Solr - Suggestions !!

2012-04-29 Thread Sujatha Arun
Now the reason ,I have used different webapps instead of a single one for the cores is ,while prototyping ,I discovered that ,when one of the cores index is corrupt ,the entire webapp does not start up and the same must be true of "too many open files" etc ,that is to say if there is an issue with

Re: Scaling Solr - Suggestions !!

2012-04-28 Thread Michael Della Bitta
Just my opinion, but I'm not sure I see the value in deploying the cores to different webapps in a single container on a single machine to avoid a single point of failure... You still have a single point of failure at the process level down to the hardware, which when you think about it, is mostly

Scaling Solr - Suggestions !!

2012-04-28 Thread Sujatha Arun
Hello, *Background* :For each of our customers, we create 3 solr webapps with different search schema's,serving different search requirements and we have about 70 customers.So we have about 210 webapps curently . *Hardware*: Single Server , one JVM , Heap memory 19GB ,Total Ram :32GB , Permgen