[chef] Re: Re: CHEF 11 : delay before databag update in search

[Michael Della Bitta < >]

If you guys brought Solr up to version 4, the new soft commit feature
lets you get document visibility latency down to a second.

Michael Della Bitta

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Seth Falcon 
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 wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Philippe Bérard wrote:
>> It seems that there’s a kind of slow update when modifying data in a 
>> databag and searching for this particular value through “knife search” or 
>> “Chef::Search::Query”
>
> Chef uses Solr to index objects for search. The Lucene index makes newly 
> updated data available for search queries after a commit. This setup is not 
> new to Chef 11, however, the default tuning of the solr/lucene commit 
> interval is now set at 60 seconds. On average, you will need to wait 30 
> seconds before an object update is visible via search. You can tune this in 
> /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb like this:
>
>     chef_solr['commit_interval'] = 60000 # in ms
>
> For very small deployments, you can probably turn this down quite a bit.
>
> + seth
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