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mthenw  
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 More options Sep 3 2012, 9:20 am
From: mthenw <maciej.winni...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:20:23 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Sep 3 2012 9:20 am
Subject: Pre-splitting and manual chunks balancing
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Hi,

I need some clarification about sharding, pre-splitting and chunks
balancing. I have 2 shards with balancer turned off and presplit set

db.runCommand( { split : "example.users" , middle : { _id : 5000 } } )

I assume that every document with _id less than 5000 will go to shard 1 and
every document with _id greater than 5000 will go to shard 2.

My question is:
if I want to add another shard first I need to move chunks manually and
then change split options or changing split options will cause automatic
chunk migration?

PS I don't want use balancer because it slows down while importing large
data sets.


 
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Scott Hernandez  
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 More options Sep 3 2012, 10:41 am
From: Scott Hernandez <scotthernan...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:40:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: [mongodb-user] Pre-splitting and manual chunks balancing
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If you aren't using the balancer then splitting does not result in
anything moving shards. Splitting chunks is a completely logical
operation -- you need to then move the chunks to distribute them.

You may want to disable the balancer while importing, and then enable
it later to evenly distribute the chunks after the import.


 
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mthenw  
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 More options Sep 4 2012, 3:46 am
From: mthenw <maciej.winni...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [mongodb-user] Pre-splitting and manual chunks balancing
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Thanks for your answer and I have another two.

Is it a good practice to turn on balancer after large data import and turn
it off before another import?

Documentation says that balancer window must be sufficient to complete the
migration. What happens when balancer will not migrate all data?


 
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Adam C  
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 More options Sep 4 2012, 3:59 am
From: Adam C <ad...@10gen.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
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> Is it a good practice to turn on balancer after large data import and turn
> it off before another import?

That depends - if your cluster has the capacity to both balance and do the
import then that is preferred, since the writes are more likely to be more
evenly distributed and the data is balanced in increments rather than a
large batch (which can take a long time - each shard can take part in only
a single migration at a time).  If the import is causing extremely heavy
load, then turning off the balancer can help by freeing up the resources
used to balance.  It's a judgement call based on your cluster, your needs
etc.

 Documentation says that balancer window must be sufficient to complete the

> migration. What happens when balancer will not migrate all data?

The balancer will run until all in-flight migrations are complete, then
stop - your data will remain in that state until you turn the balancer on
again.  If you do another import in the meantime, then the data will become
more unbalanced and you will essentially repeat this pattern forever (i.e.
your data will never be balanced).  Hence the note in the docs - it won't
break anything per se, but your data will remain unbalanced from a shard
perspective.  You can see the chunk distribution with sh.status() from the
shell.

Adam


 
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