How are you measuring the searches/s metric? ES doesn't run searches within itself, they have to be initiated externally somehow.
Also, you should really upgrade :) Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 10 August 2014 02:24, Rafael Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Last year paramedic reported thousands o searches per second (whereas our > regular load are in the hundreds range) this eventually led to an excessive > cpu load across the cluster (4 machines). Not more than a month later the > same thing happened. We updated to ES 0.90.12 at the time, thinking it > could have something to do with a "forever looping query" bug that was > fixed. > > Since then (around 6 months) everything was fine. Yesterday the same thing > happened again (we're still in the same elastic search version). One > interesting thing we noted is that the increase in searches over time, > which we thought was due to more adoption of the cluster in the company, > was actually a product of that weird behavior. We were at 1000 searches per > second. Yesterday it suddenly spiked to 2000 and it required a cluster > restart. After the restart it dropped to 600 and stayed like that. > > Is there some recommendation for restarting machines in the cluster from > time to time? Has anyone seen anything like this? > > []'s > Rafael > > -- > 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/CAKCnWVk2Ji0TNEx_Jdgzw1G5cMTiZZuk%2B1LzsSWVDbkzqiwJ1A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKCnWVk2Ji0TNEx_Jdgzw1G5cMTiZZuk%2B1LzsSWVDbkzqiwJ1A%40mail.gmail.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/CAEM624bqfuF4Kucx2gWSy40quQQHaFUf0DZwZ3GiaaupHROB-g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
