Documents size increased after increasing the heap on ES nodes

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I have an ES cluster with 5 nodes. 1 acting as client node, 1 acting as master node and 3 as data nodes.
I was using the default 1GB heap for each of these nodes.
However, after getting Out Of Memory Exception, I increased the Heap to 16GB (I have machines upto 64GB RAM).
After this change in configuration, I have seen an increase in the documents (Number of documents and Total index size).
The inflow of data in both these scenarios has been constant.

Is there a possibility, that due to low memory, ES was not indexing all my data initially?
Thanks in Advance. :slight_smile:

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No. It may have been slow but documents cannot simply "appear".

That's not really a good idea, it can lead to split brain.