# Are there any guidelines to estimate how many snapshots can be handled by elasticsearch with specific amount of memory/cpu

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-guidelines-to-estimate-how-many-snapshots-can-be-handled-by-elasticsearch-with-specific-amount-of-memory-cpu/329811>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** slm-snapshot-lifecycle-management, snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [April 12, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-guidelines-to-estimate-how-many-snapshots-can-be-handled-by-elasticsearch-with-specific-amount-of-memory-cpu/329811 "2023-04-12T08:29:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vivek\_Shinde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vivek_shinde/32/117294_2.png) [@Vivek\_Shinde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vivek_Shinde)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-guidelines-to-estimate-how-many-snapshots-can-be-handled-by-elasticsearch-with-specific-amount-of-memory-cpu/329811/1 "2023-04-12T08:29:34Z")

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HI - I am looking for any data or estimates if we can derive about retaining the snapshots based on size of the cluster.

E.g. If we have a smaller elastic cluster with 2G of memory allocation, and SLM with each 15 min snapshot policy. Is it possible that, the system will have some performance impact after reaching certain number of snapshots..

I am sometimes seeing connection pool shutdown errors for s3 repo connection. And post restart of ES, it starts working fine again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-guidelines-to-estimate-how-many-snapshots-can-be-handled-by-elasticsearch-with-specific-amount-of-memory-cpu/329811/2 "2023-05-10T08:30:16Z")

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