Sorry, you can't reduce it. I imagine the performance increase you get is 
because the merge logic is per shard so it does less when there are more shards 
for the same data. You can likely get similar numbers if you set the refresh 
interval to -1 and play with the merge policy before the bulk load. You'd want 
to reset it afterwords and then run an optimize. This amounts to the same thing 
as starting with more shards and merging them. Mostly. I think. 

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> On Apr 12, 2014, at 4:05 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing on a single node.
> 
> I find I can get better bulk indexing performance when the index has more 
> shards. Does that make sense ?
> 
> My own theory is that when I have multiple bulk clients, then by increasing 
> shards the server achieves better concurrency  (?)
> 
> So if I increase the shards to say 30, and get a good indexing run... is it 
> possible to reduce the number of shards subsequently.. or does it matter if 
> the number remains at say 30?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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