If you're on Solr 4.6 then this is likely the issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4260.
The issue is resolved for Solr 4.6.1 which should be out next week. Joel Bernstein Search Engineer at Heliosearch On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nn...@neulinger.org>wrote: > How can we issue an update request and be certain that all of the replicas > in the SolrCloud cluster are up to date? > > I found this post: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.lucene. > solr.user/79886 > > which seems to indicate that all replicas for a shard must finish/succeed > before it returns to client that the operation succeeded - but we've been > seeing behavior lately (until we configured automatic soft commits) where > the replicas were almost always "not current" - i.e. the replicas were > missing documents/etc. > > Is this something wrong with our cloud setup/replication, or am I > misinterpreting the way that updates in a cloud deployment are supposed to > function? > > If it's a problem with our cloud setup, do you have any suggestions on > diagnostics? > > Alternatively, are we perhaps just using it wrong? > > -- Nathan > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Nathan Neulinger nn...@neulinger.org > Neulinger Consulting (573) 612-1412 >