Why need to bring down. How about bring down network access e.g. by adding a temp firewall rule.
Or just send a stop signal to zookeeper process. On test done send a continue Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 9, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Venkateswarlu Bommineni <bvr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply Eric. > > The use case is We have a script that will send a mail when Solr and ZK > don't talk to each other. > > so we want to just replicate the issue and test that script. > > but actually, we don't want to bring down Solr and ZK nodes but want to > just try by disconnecting both of them. > > Thanks, > Venkat. > > Thanks, > Venkat. > > > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Well, it depends on what you mean by "impacting". >> >> When ZK drops below quorum you will no longer be able to send indexing >> requests to Solr, they'll all fail. At least they better ;). >> >> _Queries_ should continue to work, but you're in somewhat uncharted >> territory, nobody I know runs that way very long ;). >> >> The other thing I'd be sure to test is how robust reconnection is from >> Solr to ZK when you bring the nodes back up. >> >> bq: Solr tolly depends in ZK for all I/O >> >> This is a common misunderstanding. Solr depends on ZK for all changes >> in cluster state, i.e. nodes going up/down/changing state (down, >> recovering, active etc). Those changes generate traffic between ZK and >> Solr. >> >> For a normal I/O request, each Solr node has been notified by ZK of >> the current state of the collection already and that information >> cached locally. So each node knows everything it needs to know to >> service the index or query request without talking to ZooKeeper at >> all. >> >> I know of installations indexing 100s of K documents each second. >> Actually the record I know of is over 1M docs/second. If each of those >> requests had to touch ZK to complete ZK could never keep up.... >> >> Best, >> Erick >> >> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Venkateswarlu Bommineni >> <bvr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Team, >>> >>> Is there any way we can bring down ZK without impacting Solr ? >>> >>> I know it might be a silly question as Solr tolly depends in ZK for all >> I/O >>> operations and configuration changes. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Venkat. >>