What problem are you trying to solve with this? Are you trying to send queries to less loaded machines? If so, this won’t do that. Leaders only do a little bit more work than followers. All indexing processing is local and that is most of the CPU usage.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Jun 10, 2021, at 9:41 AM, Stephen Lewis Bianamara > <stephen.bianam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Community, > > I checked the source and see that this doesn't look to be supported to read > only from followers. I guess this is possible by pulling the state.json > data from zookeeper, identifying the leaders, and then passing an explicit > whitelist not including the leaders. Can someone confirm that this is the > only way to accomplish this goal? > > Thanks, > Stephen > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 1:55 PM Stephen Lewis Bianamara < > stephen.bianam...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> Is it possible to configure a Solr cloud to serve reads only from the >> followers? I see this page >> <https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_8/distributed-requests.html> explains >> how to prefer by local, replica type, or sysprops. But is it possible to >> specify that something should be served by a non-leader whenever possible >> (or even require it to return at all)? E.g., something like >> >> shards.preference=leader:false >> >> >> Thanks, >> Stephen >>
