Sounds like you need more nodes, which isn't easy to work around. You can try increasing the RAM to 64GB and then assigning 32GB to ES, but above that and you start losing to GC.
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 21 February 2014 23:20, onthefloorr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I would like to ask for your help with the following : > > I have two servers on which the elasticsearch is already installed and > they are configured with the following : > cluster.name: essearchlocal > > thrift.port: 9500 > > index.cache.field.type: soft > index.cache.field.max_size: 20000 > index.cache.field.expire: 25m > index.refresh_interval: 30s > indices.fielddata.cache.size: 15% > indices.fielddata.cache.expire: 6h > indices.cache.filter.size: 15% > indices.cache.filter.expire: 6h > indices.memory.index_buffer_size: 70% > > indices.store.throttle.type: merge > indices.store.throttle.max_bytes_per_sec: 25mb > > indices.recovery.concurrent_streams: 3 > indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec: 20mb > index.translog.flush_threshold_ops: 25000 > > index.merge.policy.max_merge_size: 500mb > index.store.compress.stored: true > > threadpool.search.type: fixed > threadpool.search.size: 20 > threadpool.search.queue_size: 1000 > > threadpool.bulk.type: fixed > threadpool.bulk.size: 20 > threadpool.bulk.queue_size: 1000 > > threadpool.index.type: fixed > threadpool.index.size: 20 > threadpool.index.queue_size: 1000 > index.store.type: mmapfs > > > # cluster settings > # index.merge.policy.max_merged_segment: 1gb # it hasn't been tested yet > # indices.fielddata.cache.size: 10% # it hasn't been tested yet > # multicast.enabled: false # it hasn't been tested yet > # discovery.zen.ping_timeout: 5s # it hasn't been tested yet > # discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 2 # it hasn't been tested yet > # discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: [""] # it hasn't been tested yet > # cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance: 2 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Each server has 24GB of physical memory available, but we are running > elasticsearch in a standalone mode. > There are two applications that insert logs into Elasticsearch at the same > time, and 16Gb of memory is added to Elasticsearch for handling requests. > There are 8 GB of memory available for the system. > > So our problem is, when a search is started the load avarage of the system > will be 'too high', and the system > will be unusable, and sometimes we will get SearchRequest Exception > (java.lang.outofmemoryerror java heap space) . > > Could you suggest me a better configuration for solve these problems ? > > We can't provide more server for Elasticsearch and we can run only it on > one node, so we can't run it in cluster mode. > > Are the problems solved, if we put more memory into the server on where > the Elasticsearch is running ? > > I also wanted to ask how can I make the elasticsearch to recover itself > quickly ? > We have 150 index ( 750 shard ) , and each index size is about 20 GB. > > I tried to give high values to recovery options, but it hasn't effect. > > > indices.recovery.concurrent_streams: 20 > indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec: 1500mb > > > > Our servers configuration : > - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33Ghz (8 core) > - 24 GB memory DDR2 > - 4 TB SSHD ( Hybrid ) > > (Elasticsearch version : 0.90.10) > > > -- > 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/d286b4ca-0d84-4d1f-a123-d2628649ac10%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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/CAEM624ZC0-UXw3x24F6q15%2BSRrc0yp8EVSd4F%3DW8VxuWtf4mNA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
