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Type: Improvement
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Priority: Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: 1.7.6
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Component/s: Sharding
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With the chunk size defaulting to 64MB now, 256 split points means that MongoDB won't initially chunk data sets larger than 16GB, which is tiny. Seems reasonable to have a sanity check, but I think it should be much higher.