# How many nodes can i insert at most

**URL:** <https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-many-nodes-can-i-insert-at-most/16849>\
**Category:** Users\
**Tags:** dgraph\
**Created:** [February 16, 2022, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-many-nodes-can-i-insert-at-most/16849 "2022-02-16T08:00:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yeahvip](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/yeahvip/32/2683_2.png) [@yeahvip](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/yeahvip)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-many-nodes-can-i-insert-at-most/16849/1 "2022-02-16T08:00:22Z")

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how many nodes can i insert at most? in other words, how many uids dgraph can provide?

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**Author:** ![pshaddel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/pshaddel/32/11584_2.png) [@pshaddel](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pshaddel)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-many-nodes-can-i-insert-at-most/16849/2 "2022-02-16T09:18:37Z")

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Check this out: [[WIP] Performance bottleneck on 1 TB data](http://discuss.hypermode.com/t/wip-performance-bottleneck-on-1-tb-data/7631)

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**Author:** ![porsche](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/porsche/32/9579_2.png) [@porsche](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/porsche)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-many-nodes-can-i-insert-at-most/16849/3 "2022-02-16T13:48:37Z")

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- Version  
– v21.12.0

- Cluster Zeros: 3  
– Leader config: 32 core, 256 GB, 8 TB  
– Follower config: 8 Core, 64 GB, 2 TB SSD

- Dataset -1  
– Count of Data Files: 1044  
– Size of each file: 30 MB (compressed)  
– Result: Bulk loader hung after 36 hours

- Dataset -2  
– Count of Data Files: 5622  
– Size of each file: 30 MB (compressed)  
– Result: Bulk loader hung after 14 hrs

Below is how I launched the bulk loader:

```auto
kubectl exec -it <zero_leader_pod_name> -n K8S_namespace /bin/sh

dgraph bulk -f /coldstart/data -s /coldstart/schema/my_schema.rdf --replace_out --num_go_routines=20 --reducers=2 --format=rdf --store_xids --map_shards=9 --reduce_shards=3 > check.log &

```