I am running elastcsearch 0.90.5 and recently I have been having issues with the disk running out of space. This is not caused by my indexes increasing in size but by the elasticsearch service holding on to the disk space. If I restart the service the extra disk space is released and elasticsearch…

swarzech (Stefanie) December 16, 2015, 9:06pm 5

I know, but updating to 1.X or newer is a much larger project and I would like to get this fixed in the interim.

Thanks

Disk usage after indexing much higher then after restart service

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Elasticsearch creating files but not releasing them until I restart the service