Did you see a message in the logs confirming that the setting has been updated? It would be interesting to see the output of hot threads[1] to see what your node is doing.
[1] http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-hot-threads.html On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Elliott Bradshaw <ebradsh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes. I have run max_num_segments=1 every time. > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Michael Sick < > michael.s...@serenesoftware.com> wrote: > >> Have you tried max_num_segments=1 on your optimize? >> >> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Elliott Bradshaw >> <ebradsh...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Any thoughts on this? I've run optimize several more times, and the >>> number of segments falls each time, but I'm still over 1000 segments per >>> shard. Has anyone else run into something similar? >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 3, 2014 11:21:29 AM UTC-4, Elliott Bradshaw wrote: >>>> >>>> OK. Optimize finally returned, so I suppose something was happening in >>>> the background, but I'm still seeing over 6500 segments. Even after >>>> setting max_num_segments=5. Does this seem right? Queries are a little >>>> faster (350-400ms) but still not great. Bigdesk is still showing a fair >>>> amount of file IO. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:47:32 AM UTC-4, Elliott Bradshaw wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I've recently upgraded to Elasticsearch 1.1.0. I've got a 4 node >>>>> cluster, each with 64G of ram, with 24G allocated to Elasticsearch on >>>>> each. I've batch loaded approximately 86 million documents into a single >>>>> index (4 shards) and have started benchmarking cross_field/multi_match >>>>> queries on them. The index has one replica and takes up a total of 111G. >>>>> I've run several batches of warming queries, but queries are not as fast >>>>> as >>>>> I had hoped, approximately 400-500ms each. Given that *top *(on >>>>> Centos) shows 5-8 GB of free memory on each server, I would assume that >>>>> the >>>>> entire index has been paged into memory (I had worried about disk >>>>> performance previously, as we are working in a virtualized environment). >>>>> >>>>> A stats query on the index in questions shows that the index is >>>>> composed of > 7000 segments. This seemed high to me, but maybe it's >>>>> appropriate. Regardless, I dispatched an optimize command, but I am not >>>>> seeing any progress and the command has not returned. Current merges >>>>> remains at zero, and the segment count is not changing. Checking out hot >>>>> threads in ElasticHQ, I initially saw an optimize call in the stack that >>>>> was blocked on a waitForMerge call. This however has disappeared, and I'm >>>>> seeing no evidence that the optimize is occuring. >>>>> >>>>> Does any of this seem out of the norm or unusual? Has anyone else had >>>>> similar issues. This is the second time I have tried to optimize an index >>>>> since upgrading. 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