Each node had 8 cores (2.4GHz Xeon), 32GB RAM, SSD disks (I never saw
IOWait, but was also focusing on ingestion rate).
I always had 2 master nodes, and in addition tried the configurations 20,
10 and 5 data nodes.
Running Elasticsearch 1.0.1 (but with Logstash 1.3.3)

-Robin-


On 25 March 2014 06:17, Mark Walkom <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you elaborate what your cluster setup is like?
>
> Node specs (disk, RAM, CPU), how many master/data nodes and what version
> of ES and java you're running?
>
> Regards,
> Mark Walkom
>
> Infrastructure Engineer
> Campaign Monitor
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>
> On 25 March 2014 16:11, Robin Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I did some intensive tests last week on a 20-node cluster and had the
>> following insights - I'd be interested if anyone has similar/dissimilar
>> experience.
>> The had 20 nodes had 8 cores each, and 32GB memory each.  I set up
>> Elasticsearch to have 15GB of that memory.
>> The sample events I was using were Apache logs (common format) without
>> any additional fields (no geoip, useragent etc. plugins).
>> When running as a 20-node cluster, I got a maximum igestion rate of 2500k
>> events/minute (41k/second), *but* the bottleneck was the logstash CPU
>> load... so I reduced to a 10 node cluster...
>> With the 10 nodes I initially had 1600k/minute (27k) and acheived
>> 1800k/minute (30k/second) by increasing index_refresh_interval to 30s and
>> index_buffer_size to 20%
>> Further reducing to 5 nodes, I had 1100k/minute (18k/second).
>> This brings me to an interesting comparison: at 10 nodes, I have 3k
>> events/second/node, and with 5 nodes I have 3.66k events/second/node. i.e.
>> the overhead for doubling the number of nodes from 5 to 10 is about 20%.
>> Is this to be expected?  Just how scalable is Elasticsearch - at what
>> point is the diminishing return on adding nodes not cost effective?
>> Is the further logical reduction to 375 events/core/second still
>> meaningful?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Robin-
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