I am trying to figure out whether replicas take up as much memory as primary shards, or do they just require a little bit of overhead?

Do Replicas take up memory?

nik9000 (Nik Everett) July 12, 2015, 3:43am 2

As much as primary shards. Same amount of space too.

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Do Replicas take up memory?

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