I could be wrong, but i dont think preferLocalShards is the default in multi-shard use cases.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:07 AM Mike Drob <md...@mdrob.com> wrote: > I believe a server will always try to prefer local cores. Can you do an > experiment with 3 nodes, and send http queries to the node not hosting any > replicas? That should confirm the balanced distribution. > > If you have multiple shards, the receiving server will forward the requests > for shards it doesn’t have, but would still prefer local shards when they > are available. > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:00 AM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > A client has a SolrCloud 8.4 setup with two nodes, and one collection > with > > one shard and replicationFactor=2. > > Of course we want search traffic to be evenly distributed between the two > > replicas. > > The client is using plain HTTP requests, no SolrJ or anything fancy, and > > sends all requests to one of the two nodes. > > I was expecting Solr to forward about 50% of those requests to the other > > replica, but it is serving them all locally. > > > > I know we can setup an LB in front or re-program the client to do round > > robin, but that is not my question. > > Is the select-random-replica logic only active when we have a sharded > > oollection, and not for a single-shard? > > > > Jan >
