: docid is the natural order of the posting lists, so there is no sorting
effort.
: I expect that means “don’t sort”.
basically yes, as documented in the comment right above hte lines of code
linked to.
: > So no one knows this then?
: > It seems like a good opportunity to get some performance!
The variable name is really stupid, but the 'solrQuery' variable you see
in the code is *only* ever used for 'checkAZombieServer()' ... which
should only be called when a server hasn't been responding to other (user
initiated requests)
: >> I see a lot of such queries in my Solr 7.6.0 logs:
If you are seeing a lot of those queries, then there are other problems in
your cluster you should investigate -- that's when/why LBSolrClient does
this query -- to see if the server is responding.
: >> *path=/select
: >> params={q=*:*&distrib=false&sort=_docid_+asc&rows=0&wt=javabin&version=2}
: >> hits=287128180 status=0 QTime=7173*
that is an abnormally large number of documents to have in a single shard.
: >> If you want to check a zombie server, shouldn't there be a much less
: >> expensive way to do a health-check instead?
Probably yes -- i've opened SOLR-14298...
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14298
-Hoss
http://www.lucidworks.com/
