(function() { var s = new ShardingTest({name: "shard_existing", shards: 2, mongos: 1, other: {chunkSize: 1}}); db = s.getDB("test"); var stringSize = 10000; var numDocs = 2000; // we want a lot of data, so lets make a string to cheat :) var bigString = new Array(stringSize).toString(); var docSize = Object.bsonsize({_id: numDocs, s: bigString}); var totalSize = docSize * numDocs; print("NumDocs: " + numDocs + " DocSize: " + docSize + " TotalSize: " + totalSize); var bulk = db.data.initializeUnorderedBulkOp(); for (i = 0; i < numDocs; i++) { bulk.insert({_id: i, s: bigString}); } assert.writeOK(bulk.execute()); var avgObjSize = db.data.stats().avgObjSize; var dataSize = db.data.stats().size; assert.lte(totalSize, dataSize); s.adminCommand({enablesharding: "test"}); s.ensurePrimaryShard('test', 'shard0001'); res = s.adminCommand({shardcollection: "test.data", key: {_id: 1}}); printjson(res); // number of chunks should be approx equal to the total data size / half the chunk size var numChunks = s.config.chunks.find().itcount(); var guess = Math.ceil(dataSize / (512 * 1024 + avgObjSize)); assert(Math.abs(numChunks - guess) < 2, "not right number of chunks"); s.stop(); })();