On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:31 PM, David Smiley (@MITRE.org)
<dsmi...@mitre.org> wrote:
> Is there any documentation on the updateLog transaction log feature in Solr
> 4?
Not much beyond what's in solrconfig.xml
> I started a quick prototype using Solr 4 alpha with a fairly structured
> schema; no big text. I disabled auto-commit which came pre-enabled and
> there's no soft-commit either. With CURL I posted a 1.8GB CSV file. AFter
> some time, I find this huge ~2.6GB transaction log file that didn't want to
> go away. FWIW A small number of records had errors, and maybe half of the
> records were duplicates of existing records in the file because of
> duplicated IDs. When I restarted Solr, Solr spent a long time reading from
> the transaction log before it was ready. But the file is still there; I
> manually deleted it. This isn't a great user experience for a feature I
> have no intention of using
Simply comment out the following in solrconfig.xml
<updateLog>
<str name="dir">${solr.data.dir:}</str>
</updateLog>
> (no Solr Cloud for this project, and no so-called
> "realtime get" which has always struck me as an odd feature).
It's often pretty important for anyone using Solr as a NoSQL store.
-Yonik
http://lucidworks.com
