Because you set queue_size: -1 in the bulk thread pool, you explicitly
allowed the node to crash.

You should use reasonable resource limits. Default settings, which are
reasonable, are sufficient in most cases.

Jörg


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Robert Gardam <robert.gar...@fyber.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
>
> We have a 10 node elasticsearch cluster which is receieving roughly 10k/s
> worth of logs lines from our application.
>
> Each elasticsearch node has 132gb of memory - 48gb heap size, the disk
> subsystem is not great, but it seems to be keeping up. (This could be an
> issue, but i'm not sure that it is)
>
> The logs path is:
>
> app server -> redis (via logstash) -> logstash filters (3 dedicated boxes)
> -> elasticsearch_http
>
>
> We currently bulk import from logstash at 5k documents per flush to keep
> up with the volume of data that comes in.
>
> Here are the es non standard configs.
>
> indices.memory.index_buffer_size: 50%
> index.translog.flush_threshold_ops: 50000
> # Refresh tuning.
> index.refresh_interval: 15s
> # Field Data cache tuning
> indices.fielddata.cache.size: 24g
> indices.fielddata.cache.expire: 10m
> #Segment Merging Tuning
> index.merge.policy.max_merged_segment: 15g
> # Thread Tuning
> threadpool:
>     bulk:
>         type: fixed
>         queue_size: -1
>
> We have not had this cluster stay up for more than a week, but it also
> seems to crash for no real reason.
>
> It seems like one node starts having issues and then it takes the entire
> cluster down.
>
> Does anyone from the community have any experience with this kind of setup?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Rob
>
>
>
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