# Elasticsearch consuming space without even indexing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 11, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-consuming-space-without-even-indexing/119367 "2018-02-11T06:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@harit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harit)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-consuming-space-without-even-indexing/119367/1 "2018-02-11T06:10:01Z")
I start elasticsearch server and I observe the index directory starts swelling, with in a couple of minutes it reaches to few GBs, without even ingesting a single document. I suspected some other es client to be ingesting so I changed the ports of my es server and node instances specifically I changed http.port to 9277 and transport.tcp.port to 9377 . Even after this the same thing is happening, I am clueless about what's happening?? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-consuming-space-without-even-indexing/119367/2 "2018-02-11T08:30:00Z")
What gives: ``` GET _cat/indices?v ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-consuming-space-without-even-indexing/119367/3 "2018-03-11T08:30:23Z")
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