Upgrade to 1.4.2 from 1.1.1 causes spike in Disk IO

Hi there,

We just completed this past Monday an ES upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.4.2 and a
Java upgrade from 7 to 8. No other changes. Same boxes, same specs, no new
queries or filters, no increased requests. What I see in Marvel since the
upgrade is a large spike in Disk IO:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i6OYBiqputk/VNuJC-47eII/AAAAAAAAA_g/TWxTcres-Uk/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-02-11%2Bat%2B11.37.58%2BAM.png

and a large dip in field data, filter cache and overall index memory
consumption:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2DRu7af1npc/VNuJNqsvOQI/AAAAAAAAA_o/56trKYYMiQw/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-02-11%2Bat%2B11.37.47%2BAM.png

Should I be looking at the new circuit breaker
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-fielddata.html#circuit-breaker
settings?

Any pointers are welcome!

-GS

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1.4.2 comes with a couple optimization which might explain the drop in
field data cache and lucene memory (most notably here is the disabling of
bloom filters by default - due to improvements in lucene they are not as
needed as before and we can save on the memory).

The IO spike might come
from Cache fileLength for fully written files by s1monw · Pull Request #9683 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub , which is
still under heavy discussion. Can you try running _hot_threads on you
cluster and see whether you there's anything stats releated there?

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 5:57:11 PM UTC+1, George Stathis wrote:

Hi there,

We just completed this past Monday an ES upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.4.2 and a
Java upgrade from 7 to 8. No other changes. Same boxes, same specs, no new
queries or filters, no increased requests. What I see in Marvel since the
upgrade is a large spike in Disk IO:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i6OYBiqputk/VNuJC-47eII/AAAAAAAAA_g/TWxTcres-Uk/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-02-11%2Bat%2B11.37.58%2BAM.png

and a large dip in field data, filter cache and overall index memory
consumption:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2DRu7af1npc/VNuJNqsvOQI/AAAAAAAAA_o/56trKYYMiQw/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-02-11%2Bat%2B11.37.47%2BAM.png

Should I be looking at the new circuit breaker
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-fielddata.html#circuit-breaker
settings?

Any pointers are welcome!

-GS

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