I have a 3 node cluster with 5 primary shards and no replicas. My environment feeds bulk insert requests into the ES cluster. However, when I look at _cat/thread_pool, I see that one of my nodes always has its bulk threads active with quite the buildup in the queue. The other two nodes sometimes hav…

Bulk insert requests not balanced across cluster

dadoonet (David Pilato) June 15, 2017, 10:54pm 2

Are you distributing the bulk requests to all nodes or only to a single one?

That may explain if you do the later.

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