On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Kevin Risden <compuwizard...@gmail.com> wrote: > If using CloudSolrClient or another zookeeper aware client, then a request > gets sent to Zookeeper to determine the live nodes. If indexing, > CloudSolrClient can find the leader and send documents directly there. The > client then uses that information to query the correct nodes directly.
The live node information is watched and cached so it is re-fetched only when it changes. There is no direct request to ZooKeeper on either indexing or querying unless our cached live nodes and cluster state information has become stale. > > Zookeeper is not forwarding requests to Solr. The client requests from > Zookeeper and then the client uses that information to query Solr directly. > > Kevin Risden > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:49 AM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com >> wrote: > >> All, >> >> I've thought I understood that Solr search requests are made to the Solr >> servers and NOT Zookeeper directly. (I.E. Zookeeper doesn't decide which >> Solr server responds to requests and requests are made directly to Solr) >> >> My new place tells me they're sending requests to Zookeeper - and those are >> getting sent on to Solr by Zookeeper - -- this is news to me if it's >> true... >> >> Is there any documentation of exactly the role(s) played by Zookeeper in a >> SolrCloud setup? >> -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
