I've seen this as well Ivan, and have also had a few people on IRC comment on the same thing - shards that are local are not simply being initialised, but being reallocated elsewhere.
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: ma...@campaignmonitor.com web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 31 July 2014 03:54, Ivan Brusic <i...@brusic.com> wrote: > The idea is that the cluster should be delayed when a cluster rebalance > occurs, but even with these settings, I often find that shards are moved > immediately. > > Are you using the default stores throttling settings? I found them to be > quite low. > > Cheers, > > Ivan > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrew Davidoff <david...@qedmf.net> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:27:13 PM UTC-4, Ivan Brusic wrote: >>> >>> Have you changed your gateway settings? http://www. >>> elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/ >>> current/modules-gateway.html#recover-after >>> >>> It still remains a bit of black magic to me. Sometimes it works, >>> sometimes it does not. >>> >> >> Ivan, >> >> I have read over that documentation several times and I don't understand >> how it would help me. By which I mean I honestly don't understand how it >> would help me - not that I am unwilling to try it. Those settings read like >> they control when recovery would begin, but my problem isn't that recovery >> is starting when I don't want it to, it's that when I start it (by setting >> shard allocation about to "all") shards that I'd think would just stick >> with the node they were previously on, get assigned to other nodes, then >> ultimately get rebalanced back to the original node. >> >> At this point I am finding that for quick restarts, just doing them with >> no additional prep work allows me to recover in ~30m, vs ~24h. So for now >> I'm just going to do that. Whatever I am doing wrong here just isn't at all >> clear to me. >> >> Thanks for your advice. If I have misunderstood the settings you pointed >> me at and you think you can help me understand, I'd be grateful for more >> information. >> >> Andy >> >> >> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Ivan >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Andrew Davidoff <davi...@qedmf.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I guess I'll ask about this once more for now. This happened again >>>> today. I set allocation to new_primaries, restarted a node, set allocation >>>> back to all, and the cluster is assigning across all nodes the shards that >>>> were on the restarted node, and when it's done, which will probably take a >>>> day, it'll likely rebalance by moving them back to the original node. I >>>> have to assume I'm doing something wrong here. Am I? >>>> >>>> Thanks for any advice. >>>> Andy >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>> msgid/elasticsearch/fc6ffe88-1a01-452e-b971-2b8fc222cba3% >>>> 40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fc6ffe88-1a01-452e-b971-2b8fc222cba3%40googlegroups.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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b8cf076f-2494-4b0e-b6c3-5a21d1c9f9a1%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b8cf076f-2494-4b0e-b6c3-5a21d1c9f9a1%40googlegroups.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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQBnsTUiXYZVyUgnuU6k7nN8NJiwh2UK_JPTOhEVa8BCRA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQBnsTUiXYZVyUgnuU6k7nN8NJiwh2UK_JPTOhEVa8BCRA%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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624ZRRCJNbVBcaaJ_0dsSGou_xhx5g8wDGvdeZKV6XQ3qsA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.