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Definition
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balancerStart
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New in version 3.4.
Starts the balancer thread. The command does not wait for a balancing round to start. You can only issue the
balancerStart
against theadmin
database on amongos
instance.The command takes the following form:
Field Type Description balancerStart
any Any value. maxTimeMS
integer Optional. Time limit for enabling the balancer.
Defaults to 60000 milliseconds.
Changed in version 3.4: If using the 3.4
mongo
shell with earlier version sharded clusters, the parameter specifies the amount of time to wait for the balancing round to start.
Example
To start the balancer thread, connect to a mongos
instance and issue the following command: