OpenSearch/docs/reference/modules/threadpool.asciidoc
Jason Tedor 5608fa7ac1 Actually bound the generic thread pool
This commit actually bounds the size of the generic thread pool. The
generic thread pool was of type cached, a thread pool with an unbounded
number of workers and an unbounded work queue. With this commit, the
generic thread pool is now of type scaling. As such, the cached thread
pool type has been removed. By default, the generic thread pool is
constructed with a core pool size of four, a max pool size of 128 and
idle workers can be reaped after a keep-alive time of thirty seconds
expires. The work queue for this thread pool remains unbounded.
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[[modules-threadpool]]
== Thread Pool
A node holds several thread pools in order to improve how threads memory consumption
are managed within a node. Many of these pools also have queues associated with them,
which allow pending requests to be held instead
of discarded.
There are several thread pools, but the important ones include:
`generic`::
For generic operations (e.g., background node discovery).
Thread pool type is `scaling`.
`index`::
For index/delete operations. Thread pool type is `fixed`
with a size of `# of available processors`,
queue_size of `200`.
`search`::
For count/search/suggest operations. Thread pool type is `fixed`
with a size of `int((# of available_processors * 3) / 2) + 1`,
queue_size of `1000`.
`get`::
For get operations. Thread pool type is `fixed`
with a size of `# of available processors`,
queue_size of `1000`.
`bulk`::
For bulk operations. Thread pool type is `fixed`
with a size of `# of available processors`,
queue_size of `50`.
`percolate`::
For percolate operations. Thread pool type is `fixed`
with a size of `# of available processors`,
queue_size of `1000`.
`snapshot`::
For snapshot/restore operations. Thread pool type is `scaling` with a
keep-alive of `5m` and a size of `min(5, (# of available processors)/2)`.
`warmer`::
For segment warm-up operations. Thread pool type is `scaling` with a
keep-alive of `5m` and a size of `min(5, (# of available processors)/2)`.
`refresh`::
For refresh operations. Thread pool type is `scaling` with a
keep-alive of `5m` and a size of `min(10, (# of available processors)/2)`.
`listener`::
Mainly for java client executing of action when listener threaded is set to true.
Thread pool type is `scaling` with a default size of `min(10, (# of available processors)/2)`.
Changing a specific thread pool can be done by setting its type-specific parameters; for example, changing the `index`
thread pool to have more threads:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
threadpool:
index:
size: 30
--------------------------------------------------
NOTE: you can update thread pool settings dynamically using <<cluster-update-settings>>.
[float]
[[types]]
=== Thread pool types
The following are the types of thread pools and their respective parameters:
[float]
==== `fixed`
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, and defaults to the
number of cores times 5.
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.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
threadpool:
index:
size: 30
queue_size: 1000
--------------------------------------------------
[float]
==== `scaling`
The `scaling` thread pool holds a dynamic number of threads. This
number is proportional to the workload and varies between the value of
the `min` and `size` parameters.
The `keep_alive` parameter determines how long a thread should be kept
around in the thread pool without it doing any work.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
threadpool:
warmer:
min: 1
size: 8
keep_alive: 2m
--------------------------------------------------
[float]
[[processors]]
=== Processors setting
The number of processors is automatically detected, and the thread pool
settings are automatically set based on it. Sometimes, the number of processors
are wrongly detected, in such cases, the number of processors can be
explicitly set using the `processors` setting.
In order to check the number of processors detected, use the nodes info
API with the `os` flag.