# Calculating size of record in queue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-size-of-record-in-queue/265727
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 28, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-size-of-record-in-queue/265727 "2021-02-28T15:03:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@pikomen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pikomen)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-size-of-record-in-queue/265727/1 "2021-02-28T15:03:57Z")
hi, any way to calculate record size in write.queue\_size?
from 7.9 the write.queue\_size was updated from 200 to 10000 and I wonder if the heap size of 16 Gb can hold all the 10000 requests (most of them bulk requests) in RAM
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-size-of-record-in-queue/265727/2 "2021-02-28T23:35:30Z")
We don't know that size ourselves, sadly. Generally you are better off handling back pressure with exponential back off or something rather than bumping the write queue a ton.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-size-of-record-in-queue/265727/3 "2021-03-28T23:36:27Z")
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