On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Josh Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Other than the resource footprint, is there any reason we should avoid > running multiple node instances of a cluster on the same machine, assuming > all the shard awareness stuff is in place to keep all the copies of a given > shard from being stored on those nodes that are all resident on a single > physical box? > Basically, if I had a cluster of, say six machines with 512GB of ram a > piece, is it reasonable to run six instances of ES per machine and 30GB of > swap per instance allocated, resulting in a 36 node cluster with and a bit > over a terabyte of memory footprint across the cluster? > > > So far as I've heard this is sensible if heap is your bottleneck. Obviously it doesn't help is disk space, iops, or cpu are your bottleneck. The deb doesn't support it without modification. Now you know all about the subject that I do :) Nik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd3xVDaWR6rcrcUdPYnn6JdiyxxdQ3hshq5y7PWG_bdtcQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
