I think solr tries itself to load balance. Read this page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Distributed+Requests (preferLocalShards!)
Also please write the query. tip: fill "send" address after completing email On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Dave Seltzer <dselt...@tveyes.com> wrote: > [Forgive the repeat here, I accidentally clicked send too early] > > Hi Everyone, > > I have a Solr index which is quite small (400,000 documents totaling 157 > MB) with a query load which is quite large. I therefore want to spread the > load across multiple Solr servers. > > To accomplish this I've created a Solr Cloud cluster with two collections. > The collections are configured with only 1 shard, but with 3 replicas in > order to make sure that each of the three Solr servers has all of the data > and can therefore answer any query without having to request data from > another server. I use the following command: > > solr create -c sf_fingerprints -shards 1 -n fingerprints -replicationFactor > 3 > > I use HAProxy to spread the load across the three servers by directing the > query to the server with the fewest current connections. > > However, when I turn up the load during testing I'm seeing some stuff in > the logs of SERVER1 which makes me question my understanding of Solr Cloud: > > SERVER1: HttpSolrCall null:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error > trying to proxy request for url: http://SERVER3:8983/solr/sf_ > fingerprints/select <http://server3:8983/solr/sf_fingerprints/select> > > I'm curious why SERVER1 would be proxying requests to SERVER3 in a > situation where the sf_fingerprints index is completely present on the > local system. > > Is this a situation where I should be using generic replication rather than > Cloud? > > Many thanks! > > -Dave >
