# Uneven load distribution for search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-load-distribution-for-search/144742>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-load-distribution-for-search/144742 "2018-08-16T15:25:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![stimur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stimur/32/34524_2.png) [@stimur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stimur)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-load-distribution-for-search/144742/6 "2018-08-17T02:59:31Z")

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and now I'm stuck with shard re-balancing 🙂

> [@Speed up shard rebalance](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/speed-up-shard-rebalance/144803):
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> I couldn't find anything recent on this topic. I have 4 data nodes, excluded one from routing PUT \_cluster/settings { "transient" :{ "cluster.routing.allocation.exclude.\_ip" : "10.32.130.87" } } and added 5th one to compensate for missing storage, while I replacing excluded node. Now I have 5 servers, 8CPU each, 64 GB of RAM and 10GBps network interfaces (seating in AWS) barely loaded: I/O wait is about 2-5 % per core CPU is only 100% (out of 800) Network and disks are doing no…

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