The recommended max shard size is 40-50GB. To figure out the best performance point though would require you to test a number of things, as this is dependent on your setup.
On 22 December 2014 at 14:05, Costya Regev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We keep data in monthly indices that grew to be about 800 GB with 4.5 > Million Documents each month. > > Each index is built from 6 shards and we use 1 replica. > > What should be the Average Shard size in an index ? and what is the > maximum ? in order to get Great performance. > > Any thoughts/suggestions? > > Thanks, > Costya. > > -- > 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/1eeeba0c-ed98-45aa-a93f-ae367ec1095c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1eeeba0c-ed98-45aa-a93f-ae367ec1095c%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/CAEYi1X9ALDBr5LKDcr4s_YpgNm0N_9_nh6%2Bd2HxntXXB2FDsfw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
