We recommend shards no larger than 50GB, but as you mention there is no exact limit.
On 18 March 2015 at 04:09, Georgi Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > My rules is : 1 primary shard per server. > > Also make some estimation how big will be the single index/shard > > I think it is not good if single shard exceed 10 GB, although there is no > exact limit. > > > Georgi > > On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 7:00:23 PM UTC+1, John S wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Is there any best practices of having on the number of shards for a >> cluster? I have a 4 node cluster and used shards of 20. >> >> During any node failure or other events i doubts since the shards number >> is high, replication to new node is taking more time... >> >> Is there any metrics or formula to be done for number or shards? >> >> Regards >> John >> > -- > 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/36ef3ed0-870f-41a5-915b-fb3ad919f7a0%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/36ef3ed0-870f-41a5-915b-fb3ad919f7a0%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/CAEYi1X-iUMdUXTS31uHuJ8FyXJy7vNqCrP_gw0tSs1xNFkzz%3DA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
