Re: Index Size and Replica Impact

2015-04-21 Thread TB
Hi, I did not change the default, it was set to default : 5 And the shards were allocated as you mentioned. My index is search intensive than index intensive, so all nodes are configured as Master and Data nodes. David, could you point me to a resource on how you derived the shard size across

Index Size and Replica Impact

2015-04-20 Thread TB
I have my indexes size @ 6 GB currently with replica set @ 1. I have 3 node cluster, in order to utilize the cluster , my understanding that i would have set the replica to 3. If i do that, would my index size grow more than 6 GB in each node? -- You received this message because you are

Re: Index Size and Replica Impact

2015-04-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
Replica = 3 means 4 copies of your data ( for each shard, 1 master and 3 replicas) On 21/04/2015 7:54 am, TB txind...@gmail.com wrote: I have my indexes size @ 6 GB currently with replica set @ 1. I have 3 node cluster, in order to utilize the cluster , my understanding that i would have set

Re: Index Size and Replica Impact

2015-04-20 Thread David Pilato
You don't have to set replicas to 3. It depends on the number of shards you have for your index. If you are using default (5), then you probably have today something like: Node 1 : 4 shards Node 2 : 3 shards Node 3 : 3 shards Each shard should be around 600mb size (If using all defaults). What