# Change index.cache.field.type on live index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-cache-field-type-on-live-index/10038>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 11, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-cache-field-type-on-live-index/10038 "2012-12-11T13:07:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![bohemer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bohemer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bohemer)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-cache-field-type-on-live-index/10038/1 "2012-12-11T13:07:02Z")

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I have a large index with around 70M documents and in the mapping is specified that the index cache type is soft. Is there a way to change to index.cache.field.type setting from soft to resident without to reindex the index?

Thank U.

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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, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-cache-field-type-on-live-index/10038/2 "2017-07-06T03:00:18Z")

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