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Update shards_allocation.asciidoc (#26019)
Slight language and consistency updates in shard balancing heuristics
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=== Shard Balancing Heuristics
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The following settings are used together to determine where to place each
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shard. The cluster is balanced when no allowed action can bring the weights
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of each node closer together by more than the `balance.threshold`.
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shard. The cluster is balanced when no allowed rebalancing operation can bring the weight
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of any node closer to the weight of any other node by more than the `balance.threshold`.
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`cluster.routing.allocation.balance.shard`::
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Defines the weight factor for shards allocated on a node
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Defines the weight factor for the total number of shards allocated on a node
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(float). Defaults to `0.45f`. Raising this raises the tendency to
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equalize the number of shards across all nodes in the cluster.
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`cluster.routing.allocation.balance.index`::
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Defines a factor to the number of shards per index allocated
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Defines the weight factor for the number of shards per index allocated
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on a specific node (float). Defaults to `0.55f`. Raising this raises the
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tendency to equalize the number of shards per index across all nodes in
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the cluster.

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