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Dealing with Jumbo Chunks in MongoDB

In this blog post, we will discuss how to deal with jumbo chunks in MongoDB.

You are a MongoDB DBA, and your first task of the day is to remove a shard from your cluster. It sounds scary at first, but you know it is pretty easy. You can do it with a simple command:

db.runCommand( { removeShard: "server1_set6" } )

MongoDB then does its magic. It finds the chunks and databases and balances them across all other servers. You can go to sleep without any worry.

The next morning when you wake up, you check the status of that particular shard and you find the process is stuck:

"msg" : "draining ongoing",
"state" : "ongoing",
"remaining" : {
"chunks" : NumberLong(3),
"dbs" : NumberLong(0)

There are three chunks that for some reason haven’t been migrated, so the

removeShard
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