Re: Stress Free Guide To Expanding a Cluster

2014-06-25 Thread Michael Hart
Try setting "indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec" much higher for faster recovery. The default is 20mb/s, and there's a bug in versions prior to 1.2 that rate limit to even lower than that. You didn't specify how big your indices are, but I can fairly accurately predict how long it'll take for t

Re: Stress Free Guide To Expanding a Cluster

2014-06-25 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:05 AM, James Carr wrote: > I launched two new EC2 instances to join the cluster and watched. Some > shards began relocating, no big deal. Six hours later I checked in and > some shards were still locating, one shard was recovering. Weird but > whatever... the cluster hea

Stress Free Guide To Expanding a Cluster

2014-06-25 Thread James Carr
Earlier this week we discovered that our three node elasticsearch cluster needed to be expanded as it was getting dangerously close to maximum capacity. I was nervous about this and read up the best I could on best practices to doing this. The only information I seemed to be able to find is to ensu