# 3.17. Resharding

## 3.17.1. Resharding Configuration

[reshard]
  max_jobs

    Maximum number of resharding jobs per cluster node. This includes completed, failed, and running jobs. If the job appears in the _reshard/jobs HTTP API results it will be counted towards the limit. When more than `max_jobs` jobs have been created, subsequent requests will start to fail with the `max_jobs_exceeded` error:

        [reshard]
        max_jobs = 48

  max_history

    Each resharding job maintains a timestamped event log. This setting limits the maximum size of that log:

        [reshard]
        max_history = 20

  max_retries

    How many times to retry shard splitting steps if they fail. For example, if indexing or topping off fails, it will be retried up to this many times before the whole resharding job fails:

        [reshard]
        max_retries = 1

  retry_interval_sec

    How long to wait between subsequent retries:

        [reshard]
        retry_interval_sec = 10

  delete_source

    Indicates if the source shard should be deleted after resharding has finished. By default, it is `true` as that would recover the space utilized by the shard. When debugging or when extra safety is required, this can be switched to `false`:

        [reshard]
        delete_source = true

  update_shard_map_timeout_sec

    How many seconds to wait for the shard map update operation to complete. If there is a large number of shard db changes waiting to finish replicating, it might be beneficial to increase this timeout:

        [reshard]
        update_shard_map_timeout_sec = 60

  source_close_timeout_sec

    How many seconds to wait for the source shard to close. “Close” in this context means that client requests which keep the database open have all finished:

        [reshard]
        source_close_timeout_sec = 600

  require_node_param

    Require users to specify a `node` parameter when creating resharding jobs. This can be used as a safety check to avoid inadvertently starting too many resharding jobs by accident:

        [reshard]
        require_node_param = false

  require_range_param

    Require users to specify a `range` parameter when creating resharding jobs. This can be used as a safety check to avoid inadvertently starting too many resharding jobs by accident:

        [reshard]
        require_range_param = false