We have a problem on a 3.5gig collection running Solr7.4 (we will soon upgrade to Solr8.5.2)
Users were often encountering timeout errors of the type shown below My colleague found a blog post at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62075353/solr-8-4-getting-async-exception-during-distributed-update-java-io-ioexception which prompted him to ask the users to direct their updates to the host which has the Leader replica rather than the host that has the non-Leader replica. This seems to have provided a temporary solution; but should not SolrCloud be able to handle updates sent to any node of the SolrCloud? Generally our experience has been that SolrCloud is able to handle this as advertised; but has anyone else encountered (and perhaps corrected) this phenomenon? In case it is helpful, the users' error message is below: Error: (CSolrClientException::Http error) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <lst name="responseHeader"> <int name="status">-1</int> <int name="QTime">656637</int> </lst> <lst name="error"> <lst name="metadata"> <str name="error-class">org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor$DistributedUpdatesAsyncException</str> <str name="root-error-class">org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor$DistributedUpdatesAsyncException</str> </lst> <str name="msg">Async exception during distributed update: Read timed out</str> <str name="trace">org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor$DistributedUpdatesAsyncException: Async exception during distributed update: Read timed out at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.doFinish(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:944) at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.finish(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:1946) at org.apache.solr.update.processor.LogUpdateProcessorFactory$LogUpdateProcessor.finish(LogUpdateProcessorFactory.java:182) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:78) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:199) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2539) at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:709) at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:515) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:377) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:323) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1634) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1253) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1155) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:219) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:335) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:531) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:352) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:260) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:281) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:102) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:118) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:333) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:310) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:168) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:366) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:760) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:678) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) </str> <int name="code">500</int> </lst> </response>