Lots of ES best practice articles recommend having dedicated master nodes. Specifically, that would involve setting these flags:
node.master: true node.data: false Say, you had 7 index nodes and 3 master nodes (https://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/16/how-hipchat-scales-to-1-billion-messages/) in your cluster. Only one of those three master-eligible nodes are going to be elected master; what do the other two do? Do they just exist for resiliency for when the elected master goes down? Do they literally not have any other role when not elected? -- 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/bdfb55a0-6645-4cac-b342-10956f87c87d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
