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Subject: Re: Where to use replicationFactor and maxShardsPerNode at SolrCloud?
From: Furkan KAMACI <furkankamaci@gmail.com>
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Sorry but if I have 10 shards and a collection with replication factor of 1
and if I start up 30 nodes what happens to that last 10 nodes? I mean:

10 nodes as leader
10 nodes as replica

if I don't specify replication factor there was going to be a round robin
system that assigns other 10 machine as:
+ 10 nodes as replica

However what will happen to that 10 nodes when I specify replication factor?


2013/4/22 Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com>

> 1) Imagine you have lots and lots and lots of different Solr indexes
> and a 50 node cluster. Further imagine that one of those indexes has 2
> shards, and a leader + shard is adequate to handle the load. You need
> some way to limit the number of nodes your index gets distributed to,
> that's what replicationFactor is for. So in this case
> replicationFactor=2 will stop assigning nodes to that particular
> collection after there's a leader + 1 replica
>
> 2> In the system you described, there won't be more than one
> shard/node. But one strategy for growth is to "overshard". That is, in
> the early days you put (numbers from thin air) 10 shards/node and they
> are all quite small. As your index grows, you move to two nodes with 5
> shards each. And later to 5 nodes with 2 shards and so on. There are
> cases where you want some way to make the most of your hardware yet
> plan for expansion.
>
> Best
> Erick
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Furkan KAMACI <furkankamaci@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I know that: when using SolrCloud we define the number of shards into the
> > system. When we start up new Solr instances each one will be a a leader
> for
> > a shard, and if I continue to start up new Solr instances (that has
> > exceeded the number number of shards) each one will be a replica for each
> > leader as a round robin process.
> >
> > However when I read wiki there are two parameters: *replicationFactor
> *and *
> > maxShardsPerNode.
> >
> > *1) Can you give details about what are they. If all newly added Solr
> > instances becomes a replica what is that replication factor for?
> > 2) If what I wrote is true about that round robin process what is that *
> > maxShardsPerNode*? How can be more than one shard at the system I
> described?
>

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