Re: why the status balancer (lock) is 0 in my configuration?

[Dwight Merriman]

i believe that is ok it just means it isn't "currently doing work".  which could be the majority of the time if roughly in balance.

mongos> sh.getBalancerState()

true

mongos> sh.isBalancerRunning()

false

On Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:48:51 AM UTC-4, Jean Carlo wrote:

Hello!!!!

When I run the command printShardingStatus , I got the following  output.

--- Sharding Status --- 

  sharding version: { "_id" : 1, "version" : 3 }

  shards:

        {  "_id" : "testset1",  "host" : "testset1/10.0.0.111:10000,10.0.0.161:10000,10.0.0.215:10000" }

        {  "_id" : "testset2",  "host" : "testset2/10.0.0.111:10001,10.0.0.161:10001,10.0.0.215:10001" }

        {  "_id" : "testset3",  "host" : "testset3/10.0.0.111:10002,10.0.0.161:10002,10.0.0.215:10002" }

  databases:

        {  "_id" : "admin",  "partitioned" : false,  "primary" : "config" }

        {  "_id" : "test",  "partitioned" : true,  "primary" : "testset1" }

                test.external_outbox_received_history chunks:

                                testset3        10

                                testset1        10

                                testset2        11

                        { "received_id" : { $minKey : 1 } } -->> { "received_id" : "1000001" } on : testset3 Timestamp(15000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1000001" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344071110757" } on : testset3 Timestamp(17000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344071110757" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344416679801" } on : testset3 Timestamp(19000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344416679801" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344440924100" } on : testset3 Timestamp(21000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344440924100" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344503035367" } on : testset3 Timestamp(23000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344503035367" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344503130374" } on : testset1 Timestamp(23000, 1) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344503130374" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344589395998" } on : testset1 Timestamp(5000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344589395998" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344589549515" } on : testset1 Timestamp(6000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344589549515" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344589634413" } on : testset1 Timestamp(7000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344589634413" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344675861634" } on : testset1 Timestamp(8000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344675861634" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344762156174" } on : testset1 Timestamp(9000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344762156174" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344762345169" } on : testset1 Timestamp(10000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344762345169" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344848537476" } on : testset1 Timestamp(11000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344848537476" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344848644423" } on : testset1 Timestamp(12000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344848644423" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344934871710" } on : testset1 Timestamp(13000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344934871710" } -->> { "received_id" : "1344935072995" } on : testset3 Timestamp(14000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1344935072995" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346022075441" } on : testset3 Timestamp(16000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346022075441" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346022236109" } on : testset3 Timestamp(18000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346022236109" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346058182767" } on : testset3 Timestamp(20000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346058182767" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346058276139" } on : testset3 Timestamp(22000, 0) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346058276139" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346108656042" } on : testset2 Timestamp(22000, 1) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346108656042" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346144682052" } on : testset2 Timestamp(9000, 8) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346144682052" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346195018909" } on : testset2 Timestamp(10000, 2) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346195018909" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346231199003" } on : testset2 Timestamp(10000, 4) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346231199003" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346317270790" } on : testset2 Timestamp(10000, 6) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346317270790" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346317638617" } on : testset2 Timestamp(10000, 8) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346317638617" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346403698923" } on : testset2 Timestamp(13000, 2) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346403698923" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346403947496" } on : testset2 Timestamp(13000, 4) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346403947496" } -->> { "received_id" : "1346490296838" } on : testset2 Timestamp(13000, 6) 

                        { "received_id" : "1346490296838" } -->> { "received_id" : "503fc2c6e4b063c8f1c78643" } on : testset2 Timestamp(13000, 7) 

                        { "received_id" : "503fc2c6e4b063c8f1c78643" } -->> { "received_id" : { $maxKey : 1 } } on : testset2 Timestamp(2000, 3) 

                test.internal_outbox_history chunks:

                                testset1        1

                        { "exp_date" : { $minKey : 1 } } -->> { "exp_date" : { $maxKey : 1 } } on : testset1 Timestamp(1000, 0) 

That looks ok, but when a excute this command

mongos> db.locks.find({_id:"balancer"})

{ "_id" : "balancer", "process" : "server1:23007:1349894930:1804289383", "state" : 0, "ts" : ObjectId("5076129feda7e9259c5daf2c"), "when" : ISODate("2012-10-11T00:28:15.552Z"), "who" : "server1:23007:1349894930:1804289383:Balancer:846930886", "why" : "doing balance round" }

I got that the state field is 0. Is it correct? That means that the balancer is not running or there is something wrong with my shards?