See also https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/pull/7440 (will be in 1.4.0) which returns the actual RAM buffer size assigned to that shard by the "little dance".
Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Nikolas Everett <nik9...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just looked at this code! > > Its a setting that you set globally at the cluster level. It takes effect > per node. What that means is that for every "active" shard on each the > node gets an equal share of that much space. "Active" means has been > written to in the past six minutes or so. When a node first starts all > shards are active assumed active and those that are not updated at all lose > active status after the timeout. You can watch the little dance it does by > setting > index.engine.internal: DEBUG > in logging.yml. > > Now - I'm not actually sure how important a setting it it is. I opened > https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/7441 to get suggest > allowing better spreading it around. Mike'll probably close it if > spreading it around wouldn't really help things much. > > Nik > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Yongtao You <yongtao....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Mark. >> >> What confuses me are "global setting" (which suggests cluster-wide >> setting) and "on a specific node" (which suggests node level setting). I >> could just try it out, but it's hard to tell if the setting worked or not. >> :( >> >> >> On Sunday, August 24, 2014 3:13:17 PM UTC-7, Mark Walkom wrote: >> >>> http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/ >>> reference/current/modules-indices.html states "It is a global setting >>> that bubbles down to all the different shards allocated on a specific node." >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mark Walkom >>> >>> Infrastructure Engineer >>> Campaign Monitor >>> email: ma...@campaignmonitor.com >>> web: www.campaignmonitor.com >>> >>> >>> On 25 August 2014 03:12, Yongtao You <yongt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is the "indices.memory.index_buffer_size" configuration a cluster wide >>>> configuration or per node configuration? Do I need to set it on every node? >>>> Or just the master (eligible) node? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Yongtao >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/f67e3a30-521c-4c13-8620-c79133cea01c% >>>> 40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f67e3a30-521c-4c13-8620-c79133cea01c%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/d76f4c67-9250-4ab9-b02d-0f0c78b33be6%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/d76f4c67-9250-4ab9-b02d-0f0c78b33be6%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/CAPmjWd1CmkjPAPJns3PjCmsFicu8KYV0DRjv9T2qacx636sy7g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd1CmkjPAPJns3PjCmsFicu8KYV0DRjv9T2qacx636sy7g%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/CAD7smRcwFh-qCtu6B15Ni9KjzCYVojXtc4KTzMc%2Be1BVHZ%3D-Bw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
