A node uses several thread pools to manage memory consumption. Queues associated with many of the thread pools enable pending requests to be held instead of discarded.
There are several thread pools, but the important ones include:
-
generic
For generic operations (for example, background node discovery). Thread pool type is
scaling
. -
search
For count/search/suggest operations. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a size ofint((
# of allocated processors
* 3) / 2) + 1
, and queue_size of1000
. -
search_throttled
For count/search/suggest/get operations on
search_throttled indices
. Thread pool type isfixed
with a size of1
, and queue_size of100
. -
search_coordination
For lightweight search-related coordination operations. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a size of a max ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
, and queue_size of1000
. -
get
For get operations. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a size of# of allocated processors
, queue_size of1000
. -
analyze
For analyze requests. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a size of1
, queue size of16
. -
write
For single-document index/delete/update and bulk requests. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a size of# of allocated processors
, queue_size of10000
. The maximum size for this pool is1 +
# of allocated processors
. -
snapshot
For snapshot/restore operations. Thread pool type is
scaling
with a keep-alive of5m
and a max ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
snapshot_meta
For snapshot repository metadata read operations. Thread pool type is
scaling
with a keep-alive of5m
and a max ofmin(50, (
# of allocated processors
* 3))
. -
warmer
For segment warm-up operations. Thread pool type is
scaling
with a keep-alive of5m
and a max ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
refresh
For refresh operations. Thread pool type is
scaling
with a keep-alive of5m
and a max ofmin(10, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
fetch_shard_started
For listing shard states. Thread pool type is
scaling
with keep-alive of5m
and a default maximum size of2 *
# of allocated processors
. -
fetch_shard_store
For listing shard stores. Thread pool type is
scaling
with keep-alive of5m
and a default maximum size of2 *
# of allocated processors
. -
flush
For flush and translog
fsync
operations. Thread pool type isscaling
with a keep-alive of5m
and a default maximum size ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
force_merge
For force merge operations. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a size of 1 and an unbounded queue size. -
management
For cluster management. Thread pool type is
scaling
with a keep-alive of5m
and a default maximum size of5
. -
system_read
For read operations on system indices. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a default maximum size ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
system_write
For write operations on system indices. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a default maximum size ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
system_critical_read
For critical read operations on system indices. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a default maximum size ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
system_critical_write
For critical write operations on system indices. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a default maximum size ofmin(5, (
# of allocated processors
) / 2)
. -
watcher
For watch executions. Thread pool type is
fixed
with a default maximum size ofmin(5 * (
# of allocated processors
), 50)
and queue_size of1000
.
Thread pool settings are static and can be changed by editing elasticsearch.yml
. Changing a specific thread pool can be done by setting its type-specific parameters; for example, changing the number of threads in the write
thread pool:
thread_pool:
write:
size: 30
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Thread pool typesedit
The following are the types of thread pools and their respective parameters:
fixed
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The fixed
thread pool holds a fixed size of threads to handle the requests with a queue (optionally bounded) for pending requests that have no threads to service them.
The size
parameter controls the number of threads.
The queue_size
allows to control the size of the queue of pending requests that have no threads to execute them. By default, it is set to -1
which means its unbounded. When a request comes in and the queue is full, it will abort the request.
thread_pool:
write:
size: 30
queue_size: 1000
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scaling
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The scaling
thread pool holds a dynamic number of threads. This number is proportional to the workload and varies between the value of the core
and max
parameters.
The keep_alive
parameter determines how long a thread should be kept around in the thread pool without it doing any work.
thread_pool:
warmer:
core: 1
max: 8
keep_alive: 2m
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Allocated processors settingedit
The number of processors is automatically detected, and the thread pool settings are automatically set based on it. In some cases it can be useful to override the number of detected processors. This can be done by explicitly setting the node.processors
setting.
node.processors: 2
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There are a few use-cases for explicitly overriding the node.processors
setting:
- If you are running multiple instances of Elasticsearch on the same host but want Elasticsearch to size its thread pools as if it only has a fraction of the CPU, you should override the
node.processors
setting to the desired fraction, for example, if you’re running two instances of Elasticsearch on a 16-core machine, setnode.processors
to 8. Note that this is an expert-level use case and there’s a lot more involved than just setting thenode.processors
setting as there are other considerations like changing the number of garbage collector threads, pinning processes to cores, and so on. - Sometimes the number of processors is wrongly detected and in such cases explicitly setting the
node.processors
setting will workaround such issues.
In order to check the number of processors detected, use the nodes info API with the os
flag.