Hi, we’ve encountered an issue in our production environment: when dgraph alpha node executing drop predicate, client queries to dgraph timed out and returned no results. Looking at the metrics around the time of the incident, we noticed that a predicate move was in progress, and at the same time B…

Hi @eileenaaa , The only danger of (effectively) disabling predicate rebalancing is that one group could grow into something unwieldy. But given your graph has minimal writes following its full data import, it should be safe. You can also increase the number of compactors (the default is two), but …

Is it safe to disable predicate move to avoid query timeouts?

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Is it safe to disable predicate move to avoid query timeouts?

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