# Recommended cluster settings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-cluster-settings/15512>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-cluster-settings/15512 "2014-01-30T21:49:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mohit\_Anchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-cluster-settings/15512/1 "2014-01-30T21:49:47Z")

</div>

On large cluster does it make sense to tweak these or diable them?

cluster.routing.allocation.allow\_rebalance  
cluster.routing.allocation.cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance  
cluster.routing.allocation.node\_initial\_primaries\_recoveries  
cluster.routing.allocation.node\_concurrent\_recoveries  
cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_new\_allocation  
cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_allocation  
cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_replica\_allocation  
cluster.routing.allocation.same\_shard.host  
indices.recovery.concurrent\_streams

--  
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group.  
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com).  
To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWo-ic\_pp0sYML0TViEK81vDgkhQKTWhqPGPXPN\_uxaBdQ%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWo-ic_pp0sYML0TViEK81vDgkhQKTWhqPGPXPN_uxaBdQ%40mail.gmail.com).  
For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-cluster-settings/15512/2 "2014-01-30T21:55:22Z")

</div>

Probably not disable, but tweak some of them, sure.  
What are you trying to achieve?

Regards,  
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer  
Campaign Monitor  
email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)

On 31 January 2014 08:49, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com) wrote:

> On large cluster does it make sense to tweak these or diable them?
> 
> cluster.routing.allocation.allow\_rebalance  
> cluster.routing.allocation.cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance  
> cluster.routing.allocation.node\_initial\_primaries\_recoveries  
> cluster.routing.allocation.node\_concurrent\_recoveries  
> cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_new\_allocation  
> cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_allocation  
> cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_replica\_allocation  
> cluster.routing.allocation.same\_shard.host  
> indices.recovery.concurrent\_streams
> 
> --  
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups  
> "elasticsearch" group.  
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an  
> email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com).  
> To view this discussion on the web visit  
> [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWo-ic\_pp0sYML0TViEK81vDgkhQKTWhqPGPXPN\_uxaBdQ%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWo-ic_pp0sYML0TViEK81vDgkhQKTWhqPGPXPN_uxaBdQ%40mail.gmail.com)  
> .  
> For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out).

--  
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group.  
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com).  
To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624amKdX3H3E3yaNrHi3Dt2zz7BdP\_qss7FDFp8A8vSey3g%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624amKdX3H3E3yaNrHi3Dt2zz7BdP_qss7FDFp8A8vSey3g%40mail.gmail.com).  
For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mohit\_Anchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-cluster-settings/15512/3 "2014-01-30T22:01:02Z")

</div>

No impact to the cluster with regards to the high response times when new  
node is added or dead node joins the cluster.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Mark Walkom [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)wrote:

> Probably not disable, but tweak some of them, sure.  
> What are you trying to achieve?
> 
> Regards,  
> Mark Walkom
> 
> Infrastructure Engineer  
> Campaign Monitor  
> email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
> web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
> 
> On 31 January 2014 08:49, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > On large cluster does it make sense to tweak these or diable them?
> > 
> > cluster.routing.allocation.allow\_rebalance  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.node\_initial\_primaries\_recoveries  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.node\_concurrent\_recoveries  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_new\_allocation  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_allocation  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_replica\_allocation  
> > cluster.routing.allocation.same\_shard.host  
> > indices.recovery.concurrent\_streams
> > 
> > --  
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups  
> > "elasticsearch" group.  
> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an  
> > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com).  
> > To view this discussion on the web visit  
> > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWo-ic\_pp0sYML0TViEK81vDgkhQKTWhqPGPXPN\_uxaBdQ%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWo-ic_pp0sYML0TViEK81vDgkhQKTWhqPGPXPN_uxaBdQ%40mail.gmail.com)  
> > .  
> > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out).
> 
> --  
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups  
> "elasticsearch" group.  
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an  
> email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com).  
> To view this discussion on the web visit  
> [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624amKdX3H3E3yaNrHi3Dt2zz7BdP\_qss7FDFp8A8vSey3g%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624amKdX3H3E3yaNrHi3Dt2zz7BdP_qss7FDFp8A8vSey3g%40mail.gmail.com)  
> .  
> For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out).

--  
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group.  
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com).  
To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWrenfHdUhLOpwFzDDBjk10yxiCbMbfs\_rWPszGRSbBJiA%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAOT3TWrenfHdUhLOpwFzDDBjk10yxiCbMbfs_rWPszGRSbBJiA%40mail.gmail.com).  
For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-cluster-settings/15512/4 "2017-07-06T01:53:50Z")

</div>


