Elasticsearch primary shards (re)location

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Hi,
I have the following situation :
I have 8 node cluster.

Periodically some nodes are restarted, and their primary shards allocated
on other nodes.

After the node is back, it contains much less primary shards then the rest
of the nodes.
Now i have a situation, where one node holds many primary shards, while
other node hold only few .

For example i have a node with 20+ primary shards, and a node with 3
primary shards.

Is this a problem ?
What will happen when the node with many primary shards fails ?

Thanks

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Do you have replicas? I'm guessing yes, and thus it's not a major concern,
as if the node with the primaries disappears then the secondary shards on
the other nodes will be promoted.
And as far as searching is concerned, a primary and a secondary as
considered the same.

You can tweak this behaviour with

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: markw@campaignmonitor.com
web: www.campaignmonitor.com

On 14 May 2014 00:47, Georgi Ivanov georgi.r.ivanov@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,
I have the following situation :
I have 8 node cluster.

Periodically some nodes are restarted, and their primary shards allocated
on other nodes.

After the node is back, it contains much less primary shards then the rest
of the nodes.
Now i have a situation, where one node holds many primary shards, while
other node hold only few .

For example i have a node with 20+ primary shards, and a node with 3
primary shards.

Is this a problem ?
What will happen when the node with many primary shards fails ?

Thanks

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