Each shard is a Lucene instance. It uses memory, file descriptors, CPU, IO...
You should keep its number per node small. If you are a RDBMS user, you probably limit the number of databases you manage on a single physical machine, right? HTH -- David ;-) Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > Le 1 juin 2015 à 13:04, Avinash Pandey <avinashpandey.i...@gmail.com> a écrit > : > > There are many variables here like the number of documents, the size of > documents. > What I want to understand though, is that what are the downsides of having of > too many shards for a physical node? > -- > Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to https://discuss.elastic.co/ > --- > 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/79e45b39-7980-4e40-a6c7-860132fd0a6d%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to https://discuss.elastic.co/ --- 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/DCFC6890-A3EC-424E-9E32-011284BB8B43%40pilato.fr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
