As far as I know sharding is done on basis of unique key hash(by default). So most of the time, each shard will have almost equal number of documents. But each of document my have different size which can show up as different index size per shard. Thanks
On 7/31/15, 5:49 AM, "wilanjar ." <wilan...@gmail.com> wrote: >hi folks, > >I'm new joiner in this milis and have question about amount of index in >sharding. >i have 3 sharding on collection, but capacity index in each sharding not >equally or near each other. >this below is example : > du -sh shard1_replica12/ >*1.1G shard1_replica12/* > du -sh shard2_replica12/ >*1.5G shard2_replica12/* >du -sh shard3_replica12/ > > >*841M shard3_replica12/* >Sharding2 bigger from the other, may be anyone can give enlightenment >about >it? > >Thanks
