# Cache clear
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cache-clear/59155
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cache-clear/59155 "2016-08-29T07:35:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Selvam\_ayyanar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Selvam_ayyanar)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cache-clear/59155/1 "2016-08-29T07:35:07Z")
Hi All,
Any one give a advice on this,
When we clear cache using cache clear API ( /\_cache/clear ),
Is there possibility to evict the query ?
and also any way to separate the heap and filter cache because we see heap usage reduced when we clearing cache.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cache-clear/59155/2 "2016-08-30T11:12:05Z")
> [@Selvam\_ayyanar](#):
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> When we clear cache using cache clear API ( /\_cache/clear ),Is there possibility to evict the query ?
Nope.
> [@Selvam\_ayyanar](#):
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> and also any way to separate the heap and filter cache because we see heap usage reduced when we clearing cache
What do you mean exactly?
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### Author:  [@Selvam\_ayyanar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Selvam_ayyanar)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cache-clear/59155/3 "2016-08-31T12:48:10Z")
Hi @warkolm,
Thanks for reply.
is the cache memory allocated in heap.?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cache-clear/59155/4 "2017-07-05T22:23:35Z")