[BLUR-430] Better distribute shards when the sizes are the same

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Blur
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Williams
• Created: 01/May/15 14:03
• Updated: 01/May/15 14:03

Description

Improve the layout strategy so that when there are multiple shard servers with the same 'lowest' count, it accumulates them and randomly selects one instead of simply choosing the first one.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-blur/blob/master/blur-core/src/main/java/org/apache/blur/manager/indexserver/MasterBasedDistributedLayoutFactory.java#L290