# Accidental force merge
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accidental-force-merge/317539
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 26, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accidental-force-merge/317539 "2022-10-26T14:50:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@h0llym0lly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/h0llym0lly)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accidental-force-merge/317539/1 "2022-10-26T14:50:56Z")
Hi,
I executed force merge and forgot to add index name which I want to merge...
Now the task is ongoing for some time and it has description:
```auto
"Force-merge indices [], maxSegments[4], onlyExpungeDeletes[false], flush[true]"
```
Does it mean it tries to force merge all indices present in the cluster or what?
I wanted to stop it, but it is not possible...
What can I do in this case? it eats all the ram and I am afraid of nodes failure when it will be ongoing forever.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accidental-force-merge/317539/2 "2022-10-31T02:17:08Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃
The only way to stop a force merge is to do an entire cluster restart. Otherwise you will have to wait for it to complete.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accidental-force-merge/317539/3 "2022-11-28T02:17:34Z")
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