Last modified: 2013-11-04 19:07:09 UTC
Since we don't use the _all field in elasticsearch Cirrus shouldn't be writing fields to it, which I believe is the default. This should speed things up and take up less space.
Looks like I created this bug and forgot about it but not about the work. Here is the commit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92685/ It has been merged. We can expect somewhere between 10% and 30% space reduction when we get around to rebuilding the indexes with this. I don't recommend we rebuild them immediately because space isn't an issue. We should see some index speed improvement but I haven't measured it.