thanks for your answer & illustration Bill.. I guess that :
during the optimization, the update request will be recorded into one file, then after the optimization, it will be merged. Do u think that I should replicate the master ? to make update can perform seamlessly ? One more thing.. about the replication strategy... 1. What is the drawback of using 1 tomcat with 3 index with one solr.war ? 2. Is there burden to the core if we use 3 index ? 3. which one is better if we use 3 solr.war each with 1 index ? (installed upon 3 different apache) thank you.