Thank you @Erick Erickson for your explanation! (although I don't fully understand all details 🙂 ).
I am using Solr 6.6, so I think there is only NRT replica in this version, and I understand the whole recovery process now. Maybe I will upgrade to Solr 7+ in future, and try the new TLOG/PULL replica. Thanks. ________________________________ From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 22:49 To: Hongxu Ma <inte...@outlook.com> Subject: Re: A question of solr recovery If you’re using TLOG/PULL replica types, then only changed segments are downloaded. That replication pattern has a very different algorithm. The problem with NRT replicas is that segments on different replicas may not contain the same documents (in fact, almost all the time won’t). This is because the wall-clock time that the autocommit interval expires at, which closes segments, will be different due to network delays and the like. This was a deliberate design choice to make indexing as fast as possible in distributed situations. If the leader coordinated all the commits, it’d introduce a delay, potentially quite long if, say, the leader needed to wait for a timeout. Even if commits were exactly synchronous over all replicas in a shard, the leader indexes a document and forwards it to the replica. The commit could expire on both while the doc was in-flight. Best, Erick On Dec 12, 2019, at 5:37 AM, Hongxu Ma <inte...@outlook.com> wrote: Thank you very much @Erick Erickson It's very clear. And I found my "full sync" log: "IndexFetcher Total time taken for download (fullCopy=true,bytesDownloaded=178161685180) : 4377 secs (40704063 bytes/sec) to NIOFSDirectory@..." A more question: Form the log, looks it downloaded all segment files (178GB), it's very big and took a long time. Is it possible only download the segment file which contains the missing part? No need all files, maybe it can save time? For example, there is my fabricated algorithm (like database does): • recovery form local tlog as much as possible • calculate the latest version • only download the segment file which contains data > this version Thanks. From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 20:56 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: Re: A question of solr recovery Updates in this context are individual documents, either new ones or a new version of an existing document. Long recoveries are quite unlikely to be replaying a few documents from the tlog. My bet is that you had to do a “full sync” (there should be messages to that effect in the Solr log). This means that the replica had to copy the entire index from the leader, and that varies with the size of the index, network speed and contention, etc. And to make it more complicated, and despite the comment about 100 docs and the tlog…. while that copy is going on, _new_ updates are written to the tlog of the recovering replica and after the index has been copied, those new updates are replayed locally. The 100 doc limit does _not_ apply in this case. So say the recovery starts at time T and lasts for 60 seconds. All updates sent to the shard leader over that 60 seconds are put in the local tlog and after the copy is done, they’re replayed. And then, you guessed it, any updates received by the leader over that 60 second period are written to the recovering replica’s tlog and replayed… Under heavy indexing loads, this can go no for quite a long time. Not certain that’s what’s happening, but something to be aware of. Best, Erick On Dec 10, 2019, at 10:39 PM, Hongxu Ma <inte...@outlook.com> wrote: Hi all In my cluster, Solr node turned into long time recovery sometimes. So I want to know more about recovery and have read a good blog: https://lucidworks.com/post/understanding-transaction-logs-softcommit-and-commit-in-sorlcloud/ It mentioned in the recovery section: "Replays the documents from its own tlog if < 100 new updates have been received by the leader. " My question: what's the meaning of "updates"? commits? or documents? I refered solr code but still not sure about it. Hope you can help, thanks.
