elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #4261 by dakrone (2013-11-26 20:29:21+00:00)
Title: Add field data memory circuit breaker

This adds the field data circuit breaker, which is used to estimate
the amount of memory required to load field data before loading it. It
then raises a CircuitBreakingException if the limit is exceeded.

It is configured with two parameters:

`indices.fielddata.cache.breaker.limit` - the maximum number of bytes
of field data to be loaded before circuit breaking. Defaults to
`indices.fielddata.cache.size` if set, unbounded otherwise.

`indices.fielddata.cache.breaker.overhead` - a contast for all field
data estimations to be multiplied with before aggregation. Defaults to
1.03.

Both settings can be configured dynamically using the cluster update
settings API.