minimum_master_nodes still doesn't protect you from all possible failure scenarios, see http://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch
What version are you running? -- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Yosi Haran <y...@my6sense.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > We are running a 3 node cluster, and each node returns a different number > of documents when issued a direct HTTP "_count" call. > > The cluster holds about 150K documents and the differences range from > 30~50 documents, but are still troubling. > > This shouldn't be a "split brain" problem, since we have set: > discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 2 > We also have a "client" node, but since client nodes are eligible to be > master, I understand that they shouldn't affect the master election process. > > Any Ideas about why and how this is happening? > > Thanks! > > -- > 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/8ed828c8-fb62-413a-9fe0-91806fcf34e6%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8ed828c8-fb62-413a-9fe0-91806fcf34e6%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/CAHTr4Zu6r2z39iT%2B%3Dy7b6Brez%2BhLz8davSRaq0UmMviCCqV_sQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.