# Bulk Index suddenly taking almost exactly 60 seconds, regardless of number of documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-index-suddenly-taking-almost-exactly-60-seconds-regardless-of-number-of-documents/70493>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-index-suddenly-taking-almost-exactly-60-seconds-regardless-of-number-of-documents/70493 "2017-01-04T00:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben\_Slinger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben_slinger/32/14288_2.png) [@Ben\_Slinger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben_Slinger)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-index-suddenly-taking-almost-exactly-60-seconds-regardless-of-number-of-documents/70493/1 "2017-01-04T00:26:08Z")

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Hi there,

I'm currently in the development phase and I'm running Elasticsearch from a Docker image on my Macbook Pro, so I'm aware there are probably performance implications there.

This problem is particularly strange though - I'm indexing a database table of around 10M records, and as I get to about 8M records indexed each bulk process starts taking almost exactly 60 seconds, no matter how many documents I try to do at once. (I'm doing 200 by default, but even if I put it down to 2 documents it's still taking 60 seconds)

I only have a single node in the cluster with 10 shards. Not sure what other info you might need to diagnose the issue. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-index-suddenly-taking-almost-exactly-60-seconds-regardless-of-number-of-documents/70493/2 "2017-01-05T01:13:06Z")

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Do the ES logs show anything like GC?

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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:** [February 2, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-index-suddenly-taking-almost-exactly-60-seconds-regardless-of-number-of-documents/70493/3 "2017-02-02T01:13:12Z")

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