Solr requests time out during index update. Perhaps replication a possible solution?

Question

We are running a Solr installation (everything standard jetty environment, just added some fields to schema).

The index is about 80k Documents that are of average si

Answer 1

You're mostly on the right track. One way to solve this is to use a second core for updates, then when this second is fully updated and committed, you SWAP it with the first core and make it the active one.

I think this approach is described in more detail in the book "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server" (here's a snippet)