Should I give my machines more ram or put a new machine into the cluster?

McElroy · January 16, 2019, 7:46am

Hi,

I have a cluster with four data nodes. Those nodes have 6 cpus and 16gb of ram.
I have 15098 active shards in this cluster.

Should I put more ram in my machines or set up a new host for this cluster?

The problem is that sometimes elasticsearch kills itself because the heap space is running out.

dadoonet · January 16, 2019, 8:14am

You probably have too many shards per node.

May I suggest you look at the following resources about sizing:

Christian_Dahlqvist · January 16, 2019, 9:09am

If you are suffering from heap pressure, I would recommend having a look at this webinar in addition to the resources David linked to.

system · February 13, 2019, 9:09am

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