Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project, written in Java.
Questions tagged [solr]
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Tomcat Solr Memory Usage
I am running solr on tomcat server on linux server, when I use the top command I see the "VIRT" very high
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4786 root 20 0 19.6g 3.8g 10m S 200 15.9 8:26.13 java
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sesmic
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Trying to install pecl Solr extension but it needs curl
When I try to install solr-beta:
pecl install solr-beta
I get this error:
pecl/solr requires PHP extension "curl"
No valid packages found
install failed
The thing is curl is already installed and it seems to be enable when I look at my phpinfo page.

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How to monitor SOLR
We have SOLR running on a windows platform in our development environment, and on a Linq platform for production. We would like to monitor the SOLR index. We currently have Microsoft MOM (I think this has been renamed in the new version?) for…

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How to Install Apache Solr / Java on CentOS?
I've seen only one or two tutorials for installing Solr, and particularly Java, on a CentOS machine, and they seem to be overly complex; heck, I can't quite figure out which version of Java (it seems there are many) to install... I'm not a full time…

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Zookeeper node is not able to load database on production server anymore
I am running a zookeeper ensemble of 3 on three different ubuntu 14.04 nodes. The setup used to work OK, but now I noticed the zk1 is not operational. It does also not restart:
:/home/www$ sudo /etc/init.d/zookeeper status
* zookeeper is not…

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Loadbalancing and HA with SolrCloud?
I have a LAMP Application running with solr 3.x on one server for several years now. Now I am migrating due to heavy load to a setup with two dedicated machines where all services are loadbalanced via 2 keepalived HAProxy Servers.
The only thing…

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Lucene Solr - Multi Core vs Multiple Instance for Different Schema Documents
I have performance concerns and wanted suggestions which work best for Multi Core or Multi Instance(with different port)?
My Case First:
Currently I am running Solr with multiple cores and its running OK. There is only one issue that sometime it…

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Make Solr server accessible on network
So I've installed Solr on a linux server and I want to access it from another web server and/or my computer.
From the Solar Server, I can see that it's running
[root@solr ~]# wget -qO- http://localhost:8983/solr

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Is there an IMAP server that supports searching emails using elasticsearch or solr?
What I am wondering is if there is an IMAP server available that supports the IMAP SEARCH command (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1730#section-6.4.4), and is fast.
I have had a look around at ways that this can be done, including using DBMail to…

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Securing Apache Solr in production
I am setting up Apache Solr 4.1 that will be used to index data for a web app. Only the web app should have access to the Solr. Users and other clients will not talk directly to Solr.
What are some of the best practices to secure this type of Solr…

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SolrCore initialization failures
When I visit the dashboard it tells me:
SolrCore initialization failures
The only warning line in /var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out is:
WARNING: New index directory detected: old=null new=/var/solr/data/index/
How can I solve this?

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Simple full-text search server
I have been looking at search solutions like Sphinx, Solr and Elasticsearch but they are all way too complex for what I need.
I'm basically looking for a server software, best distributed, that allows me to just throw in chunks of text associated…

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What is the proper iptables configuration for Apache Solr on CentOS?
I know for a fact that iptables running is causing my instance of Apache Solr to be inaccessible.
How do I know this? Because I ran:
/sbin/service iptables save && /sbin/service iptables stop
Once I did this, everything worked flawlessly.
I would…

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How to determine when SOLR starts an index build
So on day 2 of NewJob I've inherited a slight issue with SOLR. The DB team has a number of servers upon which they generate SOLR indexes. The servers aren't beefy enough to run multiple indexes at the same time (mostly since the datasets are…

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Best location for Solr index files
I'm trying to setup properly Solr under a debian machine. It's working ok but the I'm not sure where's the best location for the index files. Currently they are inside the application's folder but I don't really like this approach. I was thinking…

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