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Increase the number of shards for enwiki_general, viwiki_general and wikidatawiki_content
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Some cirrus indices have shards > 30GB. This is starting to cause issue when reallocating them during cluster restart (finding space to allocate 45GB is not entirely trivial). We should probably increase the number of shards for the following indices:

  • enwiki_general
  • viwiki_general
  • wikidatawiki_content

The largest shards are below:

curl -s 'localhost:9200/_cat/shards?h=i,s,sto' | grep gb | sort -k 3 -n | tail -n 60
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       10   33.5gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       10   33.5gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       4    33.6gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       4    33.6gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       4    33.6gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       7    33.7gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       7    33.7gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       7    33.8gb
commonswiki_file_1521735948                       10     34gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   6    42.6gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   4    43.4gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   4    43.4gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   6    43.5gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   0    43.7gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   0    43.8gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   0    43.8gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   6    44.5gb
viwiki_general_1499851663                         1    44.6gb
viwiki_general_1499851663                         1    44.6gb
viwiki_general_1499851663                         1    44.6gb
viwiki_general_1499851663                         0    44.7gb
viwiki_general_1499851663                         0    44.7gb
viwiki_general_1499851663                         0    44.7gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   3      45gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   3    45.1gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   3    45.2gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         6    45.4gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         6    45.4gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         6    45.4gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         5    45.6gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         7    45.7gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         1    45.8gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         2    45.8gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         0    45.9gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         1    45.9gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         1    45.9gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         7    45.9gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         7      46gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   1      46gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         4    46.1gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   1    46.1gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         2    46.2gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         2    46.2gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         4    46.2gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   1    46.2gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   5    46.4gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         4    46.5gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         3    46.7gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         3    46.7gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         3    46.8gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         0    46.9gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         5    46.9gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         0      47gb
enwiki_general_1521866192                         5    47.3gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   4    47.3gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   5    47.4gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   5    47.6gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   2    48.1gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   2    48.1gb
wikidatawiki_content_1522105797                   2    48.1gb

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Change 427176 had a related patch set uploaded (by DCausse; owner: DCausse):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [cirrus] Increase the number of shards for wikidatawiki_content, enwiki_general

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/427176

dcausse triaged this task as Medium priority.
dcausse moved this task from needs triage to Current work on the Discovery-Search board.

Change 427176 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [cirrus] Increase the number of shards for wikidatawiki_content, enwiki_general

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/427176

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-05-09T13:10:53Z] <dcausse@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: T192064 [cirrus] Increase the number of shards for wikidatawiki_content, enwiki_general (duration: 01m 20s)