Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

2016-04-18 Thread John Bickerstaff
il.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:52 PM, John Bickerstaff > <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > > Thanks all - very helpful. > > > > @Shawn - your reply implies that even if I'm hitting the URL for a single > > endpoint via HTTP - the "balancing&qu

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

2016-04-18 Thread John Bickerstaff
fine > - > > although the search requests may not run on the Solr instance the load > > balancer targeted - due to "a" above. > > > > Corrections or refinements welcomed... > > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

2016-04-18 Thread John Bickerstaff
un on the Solr instance the load balancer targeted - due to "a" above. Corrections or refinements welcomed... On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 4/17/2016 10:35 PM, John Bickerstaff wrote: > > My prior use of SOLR in produ

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

2016-04-17 Thread John Bickerstaff
hould still be distributed with a load balancer. Queries do NOT go through Zookeeper. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Apr 17, 2016, at 9:35 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > > My prior use of SOLR

Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

2016-04-17 Thread John Bickerstaff
My prior use of SOLR in production was pre SOLR cloud. We put a round-robin load balancer in front of replicas for searching. Do I understand correctly that a load balancer is unnecessary with SOLR Cloud? I. E. -- SOLR and Zookeeper will balance the load, regardless of which replica's URL is

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-15 Thread John Bickerstaff
Oh, and what, if any directories need to exist for the ADDREPLICA command to work? Hopefully nothing past the already existing /var/solr/data created by the Solr install script? On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:18 AM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com > wrote: > Oh, and wha

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-15 Thread John Bickerstaff
Oh, and what, if any directories need to exist for the ADDREPLICA On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:09 AM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com > wrote: > Thanks again Eric - I'm going to be trying the ADDREPLICA again today or > Monday. I much prefer that to hand-edit hackery... >

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-15 Thread John Bickerstaff
es the `=...` actually work for you? When attempting similar with > > Solr 5.3.1, despite what documentation said, I had to use > > `node_name=...`. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Jarek > > > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, at 05:48, John Bickerstaff wrote: > >

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
ICA=test2=shard1=x.x.x.x:9001_solr> (Note the / instead of _ ) On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:45 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com > wrote: > Jay - it's probably too simple, but the error says "not currently active" > which could, of course, mean that

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
u're using ports different from the default 8983 for your Solr instances... You probably checked already, but I thought I'd mention it. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:30 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > Thanks Eric! > > I'll look into that immediately - yes, I thin

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
instance must be up and running for the replica to > be added, but that's not onerous > > > The bin/solr script is a "work in progress", and doesn't have direct > support > for "addreplica", but it could be added. > > Best, > Erick > > On Thu, Ap

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
llection, and then > inspecting the live_nodes list in Zookeeper to confirm that the (live) node > list is actually what you think it is. > > > > > > On 4/14/16, 4:04 PM, "John Bickerstaff" <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > > >5.4 > > > >

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
5.4 This problem drove me insane for about a month... I'll send you the doc. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks John, which version of solr are you using? > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:59 PM, John Bickerstaff < > j..

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
> Curious what command did you use? > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:48 PM, John Bickerstaff < > j...@johnbickerstaff.com> > wrote: > > > I had a hard time getting replicas made via the API, once I had created > the > > collection for the first time although t

Re: Adding replica on solr - 5.50

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
I had a hard time getting replicas made via the API, once I had created the collection for the first time although that may have been ignorance on my part. I was able to get it done fairly easily on the Linux command line. If that's an option and you're interested, let me know - I have a

Re: Referencing incoming search terms in searchHandler XML

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
t > boosting just influences the score it does _not_ explicitly order the > results. So the docs with "figo" in the conentType field will tend to > the top, but won't be absolutely guaranteed to be there. > > > > Best, > Erick > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:18 PM

Re: Referencing incoming search terms in searchHandler XML

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
terms in solrconfig.xml. You've already found the ability > to configure edismax as your defType and apply boosts > to particular fields... > > Best, > Erick > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:53 AM, John Bickerstaff > <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > >

Re: Referencing incoming search terms in searchHandler XML

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
. Thanks. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:34 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com > wrote: > I have the following (essentially hard-coded) line in the Solr Admin Query > UI > > = > bq: contentType:(searchTerm1 searchTerm2 searchTerm2)^1000 > = > > The

Referencing incoming search terms in searchHandler XML

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
I have the following (essentially hard-coded) line in the Solr Admin Query UI = bq: contentType:(searchTerm1 searchTerm2 searchTerm2)^1000 = The "searchTerm" entries represent whatever the user typed into the search box. This can be one or more words. Usually less than 5. I want to

Re: Optimal indexing speed in Solr

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
Stupid phone autocorrect... If you add updated documents of the same ID over time, optimizing your collection(s) may help. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:50 AM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > If you delete a lot of documents over time, or if you add updated &g

Re: Optimal indexing speed in Solr

2016-04-14 Thread John Bickerstaff
If you delete a lot of documents over time, or if you add updated documents of the same I'd over time, optimizing your collection(s) may help. On Apr 14, 2016 3:52 AM, "Emir Arnautovic" wrote: > Hi Edwin, > Indexing speed depends on multiple factors: HW, Solr

Arguments for and against putting solr.xml into Zookeeper?

2016-04-12 Thread John Bickerstaff
Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone can comment on arguments for and against putting solr.xml into Zookeeper? I assume one argument for doing so is that I would then have all configuration in one place. I also assume that if it doesn't get included as part of the upconfig command, there is

Re: Adding configset in SolrCloud via API

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
t; Thanks > > Bosco > > > > > On 4/6/16, 2:47 PM, "John Bickerstaff" <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > > >Therefore, this becomes possible: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/525212/how-to-run-unix-shell-script-from-java-code > > &

Re: Adding configset in SolrCloud via API

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
Therefore, this becomes possible: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/525212/how-to-run-unix-shell-script-from-java-code Hackish, but certainly doable... Given there's no API... On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:44 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > Yup - just tested - tha

Re: Adding configset in SolrCloud via API

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
Yup - just tested - that command runs fine with Solr NOT running... On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:41 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > If you can get to the IP addresses from your application, then there's > probably a way... Do you mean you're firewalled off or i

Re: Adding configset in SolrCloud via API

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
If you can get to the IP addresses from your application, then there's probably a way... Do you mean you're firewalled off or in some other way unable to access the Solr box IP's from your Java application? If you're looking to do "automated build of virtual machines" there are some tools like

Re: Saving Solr filter query.

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
Right... You can store that anywhere - but at least consider not storing it in your existing SOLR collection just because it's there... It's not really the same kind of data -- it's application meta-data and/or user-specific data... Getting it out later will be more difficult than if you store

Re: CompositId router

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
ties as per 5.5 > changes > 5. start zookeeper > 5. upload config to zookeeper > 6. Create collection using rest api > 7. start cluster > 8. copy collection data from 4.5 to solr 5.5 data directory > > > If you can share upgrade step/process document, that will be great >

Re: CompositId router

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
/confluence/display/solr/Upgrading+Solr https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Upgrading+a+Solr+4.x+Cluster+to+Solr+5.0 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Major+Changes+from+Solr+4+to+Solr+5 On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:58 AM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote

Re: CompositId router

2016-04-06 Thread John Bickerstaff
I recently upgraded from 4.x to 5.5 -- it was a pain to figure it out, but it turns out to be fairly straightforward... Caveat: Because I run all my data into Kafka first, I was able to easily re-create my collections by running a microservice that pulls from Kafka and dumps into Solr. I have a

Re: Update Speed: QTime 1,000 - 5,000

2016-04-05 Thread John Bickerstaff
A few thoughts... >From a black-box testing perspective, you might try changing that softCommit time frame to something longer and see if it makes a difference. The size of your documents will make a difference too - so the comparison to 300 - 500 on other cloud setups may or may not be

Re: CompositId router

2016-04-05 Thread John Bickerstaff
In terms of #2, this might be of use... https://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToReindex On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Anuj Lal wrote: > I am new to solr. Need some advice from more experienced solr team > members > > I am upgrading 4.4 solr cluster to 5.5 > > > One of the

Re: How to Get info about clusterstate in solr 5.2.1 just like ping request handler with distrib=true

2016-04-05 Thread John Bickerstaff
>From some docs I'm working on - this command (against one solr box) got me the entire cluster's state... Don't know if it'll work for you, but just in case... There may be an api command that is similar - not sure. I'm mostly operating on the command line right now. (statdx is the name of my

Re: Multiple data-config.xml in one collection?

2016-04-05 Thread John Bickerstaff
My own choices were driven mostly by the usage of the data - from a more architectural perspective. I have "appDocuments" and "appImages" for one of the applications I'm supporting. Because they are so closely connected (an appDocuments can have N number of appImages and appImages can belong to

Re: solr 5.2.1, data import issue, shown processed rows doesn't match acturally indexed doc quantity.

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
ID's are on documents that are actually unique. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:51 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > Sweet - that's a good point - I ran into that too - I had not run the > commit for the last "batch" (I was using SolrJ) and so numbers didn

Re: solr 5.2.1, data import issue, shown processed rows doesn't match acturally indexed doc quantity.

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
Sweet - that's a good point - I ran into that too - I had not run the commit for the last "batch" (I was using SolrJ) and so numbers didn't match until I did. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Binoy Dalal wrote: > 1) Are you sure you don't have duplicates? > 2) All of your

Re: solr 5.2.1, data import issue, shown processed rows doesn't match acturally indexed doc quantity.

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
The first question is whether you have duplicate ID's in your data set. I had the same kind of thing a few months back, freaked out, and spent a few hours trying to figure it out by coding extra logging etc... to keep track of every single count at every stage of the process.. All the numbers

Re: Parallel Updates

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
Does SOLR cloud push indexing across all nodes? I've been planning 4 SOLR boxes with only 3 exposed via the load balancer, leaving the 4th available internally for my microservices to hit with indexing work. I was assuming that if I hit my "solr4" IP address, only "solr4" will do the indexing...

Re: Parallel Updates

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
Will the processes be Solr processes? Or do you mean multiple threads hitting the same Solr server(s)? There will be a natural bottleneck at one Solr server if you are hitting it with a lot of threads - since that one server will have to do all the indexing. I don't know if this idea is

Re: Sort order for *:* query

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
You can sort like this (I believe that _version_ is the internal id/index number for the document, but you might want to verify) In the Admin UI, enter the following in the sort field: _version_ asc You could also put an entry in the default searchHandler in solrconfig.xml to do this to every

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-04 Thread John Bickerstaff
I can display a sorted list > via: > > fq=listid_s:378 > sort=listpos(listpos_s,378) asc > > Regards, > Tamas > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:55 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com > > > wrote: > > > Tamas, > > > > This feels a bit li

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-01 Thread John Bickerstaff
l... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3931827/solr-merging-results-of-2-cores-into-only-those-results-that-have-a-matching-fie On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:40 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > Tamas, > > I'm brainstorming here - not being careful, just throwing o

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-01 Thread John Bickerstaff
- and then sort them by ID based on the data associated with the User (a list of ID's, in order) There is even a way to write a plugin that will go after external data to help sort Solr documents, although I'm guessing you'd rather avoid that... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:59 AM,

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-01 Thread John Bickerstaff
(status, amount, ..) from offset and 50 > rows then it would be perfect and fast. If ordering would be outside of > solr then i have to retrive almost every 1 documents from solr (a bit > less if filtered) to order them and display the page of 50 products. > 2016. ápr. 1. 19:15 ez

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-01 Thread John Bickerstaff
ver your intent is for this search. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:15 AM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > Just to be clear - I don't mean who requests the list (application or > user) I mean what "rule" determines the ordering of the list? > > Or, is there even a

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-01 Thread John Bickerstaff
ecause Solr does the work of > filtering and pagination. If sorting were done outside than I would have to > read every document from Solr to sort them. It is not an option, I have to > query onle one page. > > I don't understand how to solve it using subqueries. > 2016. ápr

Re: Sorting question

2016-04-01 Thread John Bickerstaff
Specifically, what drives the position in the list? Is it arbitrary or is it driven by some piece of data? If data-driven - code could do the sorting based on that data... separate from SOLR... Alternatively, if the data point exists in SOLR, a "sub-query" might be used to get the right sort

How to reference search term(s) in searchHandler

2016-03-31 Thread John Bickerstaff
I believe I want to set up a search handler with a function query to avoid needing to code it. The function query does some weighting by checking the "title" field for whatever the user entered as their search term (named myCurrentSearchTerm below) To test this out in the Admin UI, I have the

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