Re: Calculating maxShardsPerNode

2018-08-13 Thread Greenhorn Techie
Thanks Erick! On 13 August 2018 at 17:05:57, Erick Erickson (erickerick...@gmail.com) wrote: I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about this, just set it to a big number ;). Solr won't create that many replicas (and the name is a bit confusing) unless you ask it to. It'll also distribute the

Re: Calculating maxShardsPerNode

2018-08-13 Thread Erick Erickson
I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about this, just set it to a big number ;). Solr won't create that many replicas (and the name is a bit confusing) unless you ask it to. It'll also distribute the replicas across nodes rather than putting them all together, and in the worst case you can plac

Calculating maxShardsPerNode

2018-08-13 Thread Greenhorn Techie
Hi, Our cluster is a 20 node with numShards expected to be set to 10 and replication expected to be 4. Wondering what is the best value to set maxShardsPerNode to? Should I consider only numShards while calculating the value i.e. because I have only 10 shards, should I set maxShardsPerNode to 1or