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Administrating MarkLogic Server

Rebalancer Settings

You can enable the database rebalancer to automatically distribute content evenly across forests in a database. The specifics of database rebalancing are described in Database Rebalancing.

Database Setting

Description

assignment policy

Specifies how documents are to be distributed across the database forests. Both the rebalancing process and the document load/insert process follow this policy. For details on the document assignment policies, see Rebalancer Document Assignment Policies.

rebalancer enable

When set to true, the database rebalancer will automatically redistribute the content across the database forests. When set to false, rebalancing is disabled.

rebalancer throttle

Sets the priority of system resources devoted to rebalancing. Higher numbers give rebalancing a higher priority.