are you referring to non-data, non-master-eligible, e.g. client-only nodes? 
i read that a non-data, master-eligible node is only responsible for 
coordination of the cluster members. do they participate in queries as well?

On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:02:03 AM UTC-8, Ivan Brusic wrote:
>
> I have never used non-data nodes, but in general they should primarily be 
> CPU-bound since it is their responsibility to gather the various shard 
> responses from different nodes and return a unified response to the client. 
> It all comes down to the amount of concurrent requests and the size of your 
> data. Since you are using AWS, it should be simple to spin up different 
> types of instances since you do not have to worry about relocating data 
> locally. Test out different configs with your specific workload. 
>
> With AWS, the bigger the instance type the less likely you will have a 
> busy neighbor. Find an instance where you can fit everything in memory 
> since IO performance on the small instance types.
>
> -- 
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>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:23 AM, wayne <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> we have fairly large ES cluster and are noticing that as the cluster has 
>> gotten larger, split brain issues have become more frequent. as per a 
>> suggestion by kimchy, we'd like to try adding 3 non-data, master-eligible 
>> nodes and flagging all other nodes as non-master-eligible. is there any 
>> guidance on spec for non-data, master-eligible nodes? would a fairly small 
>> instance, like a m1.small or micro, be sufficient to run such nodes? any 
>> other considerations we should take into account? btw, we looked into using 
>> the es-zk plugin, but apparently it has not been updated recently and is 
>> not supported in 0.90.4 and higher. thanks for any tips/pointers!
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