# CircuitBreakingException internal:index/shard/recovery/start\_recovery

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuitbreakingexception-internal-index-shard-recovery-start-recovery/133581>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuitbreakingexception-internal-index-shard-recovery-start-recovery/133581 "2018-05-28T18:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![SKumarMN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skumarmn/32/27537_2.png) [@SKumarMN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SKumarMN)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuitbreakingexception-internal-index-shard-recovery-start-recovery/133581/1 "2018-05-28T18:30:19Z")

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Hi All,

I am running a few nodes of ES 5.6.5 with HEAP set to 30G and indices.breaker.total.limit to 20% . Some of my shards are unassigned and i tried to restart and once the ES is started I still see some of the shards are getting unssigned. When I look into the reason of unassigned shards I get the below message

failed recovery, failure RecoveryFailedException[[.test\_index][0]: Recovery failed from {WARM-10.0.4.205}{eBycpN86Tji7--R0uO5c4A}{JjnKxb6sSpyCQvEy81YOww}{10.0.4.205}{10.0.4.205:9300}{box\_type=warm} into {WARM-10.0.4.214}{LG5CPCNaR4ycXdXUAlwZlQ}{TlPC7-Z7QdCkRsmANEQD3w}{10.0.4.214}{10.0.4.205:9300}{box\_type=warm}]; nested: RemoteTransportException[[WARM-10.0.4.205][10.0.4.205:9300][internal:index/shard/recovery/start\_recovery]]; nested: CircuitBreakingException[[parent] Data too large, data for [\<transport\_request\>] would be [5594975772/5.2gb], which is larger than the limit of [5543336345/5.1gb]]; "

Is this issue due to indices.breaker.total.limit to 20% ?. Can you please suggest how I can look into this issue further

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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:** [June 25, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuitbreakingexception-internal-index-shard-recovery-start-recovery/133581/2 "2018-06-25T18:30:25Z")

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