There is a RELOAD collection command you might try: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API#Collection sAPI-api2
I think you¹ll find this a lot faster than restarting your whole JVM. On 2/24/14, 4:12 PM, "KNitin" <nitin.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi > > I have a 4 node solrcloud cluster with more than 50 collections with 4 >shards each. Everytime I want to make a schema change, I upload configs to >zookeeper and then restart all nodes. However the restart of every node is >very slow and takes about 20-30 minutes per node. > >Is it recommended to make loadOnStartup=false and allow solrcloud to lazy >load? Is there a way to make schema changes without restarting solrcloud? > > >Thanks