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On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 14:17:02 UTC+1, Pavel P wrote: > > It looks, that I have 2 shards unassigned, because two other shards were > stuck in "RELOCATING" state. > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TD84Uz8lg5Q/VGtGVXVIFVI/AAAAAAAAAK4/ITudefzX1qQ/s1600/ES_RELOCATING.png> > > And I think I have them migrating here and there, and while they are > trying to find the new home for themselves, it's not possible to allocate > those 2 shards. > I've tried to close the index and then open - when the index was closed - > all the remaining shards were allocated successfully, after I've opened it > again - no shards remain unassigned. > > So the current question is - why some shards are relocating constantly. > > > Regards, > > > > > On Monday, November 17, 2014 11:02:43 AM UTC+2, Pavel P wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a cluster from 5 nodes, where I store the information from the >> logstash. >> Recently I've tried to increase the number of shards in the logstash >> index to 20 (from 5). >> >> From the beginning everything went well, all the shards were allocated >> and the cluster state was green. >> >> But, currently, when the new index is started (at the beginning of the >> day), I met the situation when some shards are not allocated: >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R3bWkXbXCbU/VGmwngnPOzI/AAAAAAAAAKY/9n8XlVCGPyc/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-11-17%2Bat%2B10.23.04%2BAM.png> >> >> Nothing happens during the day, while I thing the cluster has resources. >> >> If I would restart some nodes from the cluster, it could turn out that >> all the shards would be allocated. >> >> The idea which I'm trying to reach - more shards => each shard is smaller >> => it would allocate them faster, it would index faster, because of the >> indexing on each shard. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1. Why it is not able to allocate those shards during the index creation? >> 2. Why it does not allocate those shards during the day? >> 3. What is the recommended shards number for N nodes? >> >> Any thoughts are welcome. >> >> Regards, >> > -- 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/3266fd9d-9b75-4670-a1d6-7380340cec4a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
