When I tried to optimize the index had 51 shards.
Regards, Ophir

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:27:50 AM UTC+3, Mark Walkom wrote:
>
> It will work until it's full, but then ES will fall over.
> Merging does require a certain amount of disk space, usually the same 
> amount as the segment that is being merged as it has to take a copy of the 
> shard to work on. So for a 10GB segment, you'd need at least 10GB free.
>
> How many shards do you have for the index, or how many are you trying to 
> optimise (merge) down to?
>
> Regards,
> Mark Walkom
>
> Infrastructure Engineer
> Campaign Monitor
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> On 2 July 2014 18:13, Ophir Michaeli <ophirm...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> I'm testing the indexing of 100 million documents, it took about 400GB of 
>> the hard drive.
>> Is there a minimum free hard drive space needed for the index to work OK?
>> I'm asking because after we indexed 100 million documents we tested the 
>> index and it worked OK, 
>> but then when trying to optimize the optimize took days and then the 
>> index did not respond.
>> The hard drive had only 10 GB free space so we tried to copy the index to 
>> a new hard drive with a bigger free space, but the index is still not 
>> functioning.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Ophir
>>
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