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The mergeChunks command allows you to combine continuous chunks on the same shard into a single chunk. This tutorial explains how to merge neighboring chunks in a sharded cluster.
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Examples in this procedure use a members collection in the test database, using the username field as the shard key.
In the mongo shell, identify the chunk ranges with the following operation:
In the output, the chunk ranges appear after the chunk counts for each sharded collection, as in the following example:
The chunk ranges appear after the chunk counts for each sharded collection. For example, the following are the chunk ranges for the test.members collection:
Merge contiguous chunks on the same shard.
For example, consider the following chunk ranges on shardA:
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The chunks to be merged are highlighted.
To merge the highlighted contiguous chunks, issue the mergeChunks command against the admin database:
On success, mergeChunks produces the following output:
On any failure condition, mergeChunks returns a document where the value of the ok field is 0.
After merging the identified chunks, confirm the new chunk, as follows:
The output of sh.status() should resemble:
After the merge, the balancer may migrate chunks across shards to ensure a more even distribution of chunks.