Did you resolve this issue? I was seeing the exact thing in my setup. I 
also have my bulk messages set to 5k in logstash. Originally I had set the 
thread pool to unlimited but this apparently causes some strange issues 
with stability.


On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 5:00:32 PM UTC+2, shift wrote:
>
> I tried lowering the logstash threads, but I am unable to keep up with the 
> incoming message rate.  It is important that I index messages in real time, 
> but equally important that I am not losing messages.  :)
>
> To keep indexing real time I need 200 logstash output threads with a flush 
> size of 5000 sending bulk messages to each node in the elasticsearch 
> cluster, but I am concerned that I am losing messages with these rejections.
>
> I increased the queue size to 500, I will see if this helps.  
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 11:34:43 AM UTC-4, Drew Raines wrote:
>>
>> shift wrote: 
>>
>> > I am seeing a high number of rejections for the bulk thread pool 
>> > on a 32 core system.  Should I leave the thread pool size fixed 
>> > to the # of cores and the default queue size at 50?  Are these 
>> > rejections re-processed? 
>> > 
>> > From my clients sending bulk documents (logstash), do I need to 
>> > limit the number of connections to 32?  I currently have 200 
>> > output threads to each elasticsearch node. 
>>
>> The rejections are telling you that ES's bulk thread pool is busy 
>> and it can't enqueue any more to wait for an open thread.  They 
>> aren't retried.  The exception your client gets is the final word 
>> for that request. 
>>
>> Lower your logstash threads to 16 or 32, monitor rejections, and 
>> gradually raise.  You could also increase the queue size, but keep 
>> in mind that's only useful to handle spikes.  You probably don't 
>> want to keep thousands around waiting since they take resources. 
>>
>> Drew 
>>
>> > 
>> > "bulk" : { 
>> >           "threads" : 32, 
>> >          * "queue" : 50,* 
>> >           "active" : 32, 
>> >          * "rejected" : 12592108,* 
>> >           "largest" : 32, 
>> >           "completed" : 584407554 
>> > } 
>> > 
>> > Thanks!  Any feedback is appreciated. 
>>
>

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