Primary shards are addressed first when writing, but it is a myth they do all the writing. Secondary shards do the writing too, but only some milli seconds later. There is nothing to worry about.
Jörg On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Santiago Ferrer Deheza < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Im having a doubt regards my elastic cluster. Here is a picture of the > head plugin.... > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A1xK6Rk6U8w/U44jmdSDLGI/AAAAAAAAAOs/mvq8of-mVvo/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-06-03+at+14.30.01.png> > Here you can see that all *primary shards are in the same node* and not > distributed. I shutdown the master node to see if the primary shards were > going to be distributed in both nodes left but this is what happened. > > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5KbBNVtm114/U44lCzj7A_I/AAAAAAAAAO8/wvc2txaoc88/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-06-03+at+14.35.04.png> > > *All primary shards were allocated in a single node*. Is this behaviour > right? I would prefer them to be distributed equally among all nodes so the > writing operations are not handled by a single one. Know how to do that? > > > This is my elasticsearch.yml > > *##################### ElasticSearch Configuration Example > #####################* > > *# Cluster name identifies your cluster for auto-discovery. If you're > running* > *# multiple clusters on the same network, make sure you're using unique > names.* > *#* > *cluster.name <http://cluster.name>: mclics* > > *action.auto_create_index: false* > > *index.number_of_shards: 16* > > *index.number_of_replicas: 2* > > *action.disable_delete_all_indices: true* > > *path.data: /mnt/elasticsearch* > > *path.logs: /usr/local/log* > > *bootstrap.mlockall: true* > > *gateway.recover_after_nodes: 2* > > *gateway.expected_nodes: 3* > > *discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 1* > > *discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: [##hosts##]* > > > Thanks, > Santiago! > > -- > 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/93af689a-e14d-4047-95be-7f32ed730a1e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/93af689a-e14d-4047-95be-7f32ed730a1e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAKdsXoGAWMbxKMHQnVOwtq-1jnSu9p2D_rUD8LhydeyJuQjLXA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
