I've had to reindex some data in order to change the shard count on the index they were in: I went from having one shard on the old index to four shards on the new index. The old index (1 shard) was 38.1GB; the new index (4 shards) is 46.7GB; both index have the same number of documents. Is there…

Index significantly larger after reindexing

zombie101 (John Ouellette) December 19, 2015, 12:46am 6

Thanks Mark and Nik -- I'll be doing a bit more reading, but that helps.

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