How to set total_shards_per_node in version 1.3

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I would like to set the total shards per node in version 1.3. But the setting is not working. I am using the following lines.

index.routing.allocation.total_shards_per_node: 7

Could someone help me on this? Any suggestion would be really helpful.
Thanks.

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You cannot as that did not exist in 1.3

Also, you should really upgrade, 1.3 is super old.

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ah ok Thanks @warkolm. Yeah we are planning to upgrade. But it takes at least 3 months to upgrade our systems. So I thought we can try this setting in 1.3.

In the documentation it says
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.3/index-modules-allocation.html#_total_shards_per_node

we can set this settings. Also I went through the 1.3 release code,

./src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/routing/allocation/decider/ShardsLimitAllocationDecider.java

the above file use this setting to allocate shards. will it not have the actual 'total_shards_per_node' setting?

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Oh, my mistake then (the docs have obviously changed since 1.3).

Then that setting looks correct. Does it not work?