Here's a POC: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/1729
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:36 PM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > Has anyone mitigated the potentially large IO impact of doing a backup of > a large collection or just in general? If the collection is large enough, > there very well could be many shards on one host and it could saturate the > IO. I wonder if there should be a rate limit mechanism or some other > mechanism. > > Not the same but I know that at a segment level, the merges are rate > limited -- ConcurrentMergeScheduler doesn't quite let you set it but > adjusts itself automatically ("ioThrottle" boolean). > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >