# Bulk load on a large file return error 56 from curl

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-load-on-a-large-file-return-error-56-from-curl/10073>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 14, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-load-on-a-large-file-return-error-56-from-curl/10073 "2012-12-14T00:54:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@Yuhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yuhan)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-load-on-a-large-file-return-error-56-from-curl/10073/1 "2012-12-14T00:54:54Z")

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Hi all,

I'm trying to perform a bulk load on elasticsearch and received the  
following error code (no response)

curl -s -XPOST localhost:9200/\_bulk --data-binary @bulk\_load\_file.txt  
Fatal error: local() encountered an error (return code 56) while executing  
'curl -s -XPOST localhost:9200/\_bulk --data-binary @bulk\_load\_file.txt

The file is as big as 300MB. on the same file I performed a head and tail  
and take only a part of it to bulk load, and it works just fine.  
what could be the problem? is there any recommended setting change when  
bulk loading large files?

Thank you.

Yuhan

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**Author:** ![Yuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@Yuhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yuhan)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-load-on-a-large-file-return-error-56-from-curl/10073/2 "2012-12-14T01:13:56Z")

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resolved by setting http.max\_content\_length setting = 500mb in the  
elasticsearch.yml file.

Thank you.

Yuhan

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-load-on-a-large-file-return-error-56-from-curl/10073/3 "2017-07-06T02:59:51Z")

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