Why the size of search thread pool in ES2.3.3 is smaller than before(f.e es version 1.3.0 )

[rusty]

Hi! Take a look into this:

Elasticsearch num processors/bulk threads detection

I looked into the code, Elasticsearch has a maximum limit of 32 for processor-based thread pools. See org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsExecutors /** * Returns the number of processors available but at most <tt>32</tt>. */ public static int boundedNumberOfProcessors(Settings settings) { /* This relates to issues where machines with large number of cores * ie. >= 48 create too many threads and run into OOM see #3478 * We just use an 32 core u…