Yes, replicas only receive data (and searches), they do no indexing. On 14 April 2015 at 02:03, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > We are having a hard time trying to keep our 4 node cluster (ES 1.4.4) up > with high indexing load. I have noticed that one of the nodes, which only > has replica shards, does no indexing at all (no blue lines in paramedic > UI). > > Is it true that replica shards do not indexing of data? Do they simply > copy the indices from primary shards? If that is the case, I am planning to > keep a machine with replica shards only behind production LB to keep > serving read requests even if the original primary shards machine goes down. > > -- > > Debayan Banerjee > > > -- > 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/CAOvawCs%3Deb89K7MuyeR0UQvkoW7Ys19t17eFWi-vWs5R9nGpDw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOvawCs%3Deb89K7MuyeR0UQvkoW7Ys19t17eFWi-vWs5R9nGpDw%40mail.gmail.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_gRFdX7VnNZUQQwYEbPRE7G%3DNh8g%2BJpr7drsZ7w_j32g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
