I have dedicated client nodes for some really intense queries and aggregations. Clients typically have 2GB of heap. Our experience is that 2GB of Heap is sufficient, the client node doesn't do a whole lot. The bulk of the work is done on the data nodes.
cheers mike On Monday, November 10, 2014 11:24:41 AM UTC-5, Nikolas Everett wrote: > > I don't use client nodes so I can't speak from experience here. Most of > the gathering steps I can think of amount to merging sorted lists which > isn't particularly intense. I think aggregations (another thing I don't > use) can be more intense at the client node but I'm not sure. > > My recommendation is to start by sending requests directly to the data > nodes and only start to investigate client nodes if you have trouble with > that and diagnose that trouble as being something that'd move to a client > node if you had them. Its a nice thing to have in your back pocket but it > just hasn't come up for me. > > Nik > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Terence Tung <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> can anyone please help me? >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a5585f15-297b-4c16-8881-0a57f8902617%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a5585f15-297b-4c16-8881-0a57f8902617%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/12ddb420-fc78-4c3c-9085-9a332814e78d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
