# Uneven servers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-servers/5087>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 8, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-servers/5087 "2011-08-08T19:00:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Antonio\_Lobato](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/antonio_lobato/32/2681_2.png) [@Antonio\_Lobato](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Antonio_Lobato)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-servers/5087/1 "2011-08-08T19:00:53Z")

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Does elasticsearch do any sort of intelligent server capability  
detection and split load between servers with more CPU/RAM and less?

We have a new servers we want to throw into our elastic cluster, but  
they are vastly more powerful in terms of processing cores and RAM  
than what exists in our cluster already. Would elastic take advantage  
of this bigger server (ie: assigning it more data into a node) or is  
it pretty much split evenly across all servers?

I have a good feeling that it will just split evenly, but, I figured  
it was worth asking. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-servers/5087/2 "2011-08-08T19:07:02Z")

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It will split evenly between the servers. Though, there are plans to allow  
for different types of "splits", including based on index size, or even how  
"strong" the machine is (relatively).

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Antonio Lobato [aj.lobato@gmail.com](mailto:aj.lobato@gmail.com) wrote:

> Does elasticsearch do any sort of intelligent server capability  
> detection and split load between servers with more CPU/RAM and less?
> 
> We have a new servers we want to throw into our elastic cluster, but  
> they are vastly more powerful in terms of processing cores and RAM  
> than what exists in our cluster already. Would elastic take advantage  
> of this bigger server (ie: assigning it more data into a node) or is  
> it pretty much split evenly across all servers?
> 
> I have a good feeling that it will just split evenly, but, I figured  
> it was worth asking. Thanks!

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**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, 3:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uneven-servers/5087/3 "2017-07-06T03:57:53Z")

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