Hi Otis; Firstly thanks for your answers. So do you mean that hashing mechanism will randomly route a document into a randomly shard? I want to ask it because I consider about putting a load balancer in front of my SolrCloud and manually route some documents into some other shards to avoid bottleneck.
2013/4/17 Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> > They won't be exact, but should be close. Are you seeing some *big* > differences? > > Otis > -- > Solr & ElasticSearch Support > http://sematext.com/ > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Furkan KAMACI <furkankam...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is it possible that different shards have different number of documents > or > > does SolrCloud balance them? > > > > I ask this question because I want to learn the mechanism behind how Solr > > calculete hash value of the identifier of the document. Is it possible > that > > hash function produces more documents into one of the shards other than > any > > of shards. (because this may cause a bottleneck at some leaders of > > SolrCloud) >
