Hi Shawn, I know that every node operates as a frontend. This is the way our cluster currently run.
If I seperate the frontend from the nodes which hold the shards, I can let him different amount of CPUs as RAM. (e.g. large amount of RAM to JVM, because this server won't need the OS cache for reading the index, or more CPUs because the merging process might be more CPU intensive). Isn't it possible? On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 10/1/2013 2:35 PM, Isaac Hebsh wrote: > >> Hi Dmitry, >> >> I'm trying to examine your suggestion to create a frontend node. It sounds >> pretty usefull. >> I saw that every node in solr cluster can serve request for any >> collection, >> even if it does not hold a core of that collection. because of that, I >> thought that adding a new node to the cluster (aka, the frontend/gateway >> server), and creating a dummy collection (with 1 dummy core), will solve >> the problem. >> >> But, I see that a request which sent to the gateway node, is not then sent >> to the shards. Instead, the request is proxyed to a (random) core of the >> requested collection, and from there it is sent to the shards. (It is >> reasonable, because the SolrCore on the gateway might run with different >> configuration, etc). This means that my new node isn't functioning as a >> frontend (which responsible for sorting, etc.), but as a poor load >> balancer. No performance improvement will come from this implementation. >> >> So, how do you suggest to implement a frontend? On the one hand, it has to >> run a core of the target collection, but on the other hand, we don't want >> it to hold any shard contents. >> > > With SolrCloud, every node is a frontend node. If you're running > SolrCloud, then it doesn't make sense to try and use that concept. > > It only makes sense to create a frontend node (or core) if you are using > traditional distributed search, where you need to include a shards > parameter. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/**DistributedSearch<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch> > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
