# Delete Blocked

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-blocked/101269>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 21, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-blocked/101269 "2017-09-21T06:11:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pengleiyfw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pengleiyfw/32/22349_2.png) [@pengleiyfw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pengleiyfw)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-blocked/101269/1 "2017-09-21T06:11:37Z")

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Hi all:  
I meet this question ,I don't know how to slove this problem.This problem lead to high cpu and load average! Here is a jstack file。

elasticsearch[data-1237][bulk][T#195]" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00007f02580b5800 nid=0x7d4a waiting for monitor entry [0x00007f016f207000]  
java.lang.Thread.State: BLOCKED (on object monitor)  
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.pruneDeletedTombstones(InternalEngine.java:708)  
- waiting to lock \<0x00000004320c8750\> (a java.lang.Object)  
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.maybePruneDeletedTombstones(InternalEngine.java:471)  
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.delete(InternalEngine.java:463)  
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.delete(IndexShard.java:521)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.shardOperationOnReplica(TransportShardBulkAction.java:596)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$ReplicaOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:249)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$ReplicaOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:228)  
at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler$RequestHandler.doRun(MessageChannelHandler.java:277)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:36)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Locked ownable synchronizers:  
- \<0x000000044c5d5658\> (a java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-blocked/101269/2 "2017-09-21T07:41:05Z")

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What version are you on?  
How are you issuing the delete?

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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:** [October 19, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-blocked/101269/3 "2017-10-19T07:41:15Z")

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Closed on October 19, 2017, 7:41am UTC

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