# Elasticsearch Index throttling info message comes in es 1.3.1 version
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-throttling-info-message-comes-in-es-1-3-1-version/22525
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 5, 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-throttling-info-message-comes-in-es-1-3-1-version/22525 "2015-03-05T10:53:42Z")
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### Author:  [@shanmuthu83](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanmuthu83)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-throttling-info-message-comes-in-es-1-3-1-version/22525/1 "2015-03-05T10:53:42Z")
Hi All
Used elasticsearch version 1.3.1
**now throttling indexing: numMergesInFlight=4, maxNumMerges=3
stop throttling indexing: numMergesInFlight=2, maxNumMerges=3**
after info message comes some index failed..
index setting configuration
{
index: {
merge: {
policy: {
max\_merged\_segment: 5gb,
segments\_per\_tier: 10,
max\_merge\_at\_once: 10
}
}
}
can anyone help me
Thanks
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### Author:  [@mikemccand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikemccand)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-throttling-info-message-comes-in-es-1-3-1-version/22525/2 "2015-03-05T14:16:36Z")
This means Lucene's segment merges can't keep up.
Try increasing or disabling the store level IO throttling:
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:53 AM, shanmuthu83 [shanmuthu83@gmail.com](mailto:shanmuthu83@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Used elasticsearch version 1.3.1
>
> _now throttling indexing: numMergesInFlight=4, maxNumMerges=3
> stop throttling indexing: numMergesInFlight=2, maxNumMerges=3_
>
> after info message comes some index failed..
>
> index setting configuration
>
> {
> index: {
> merge: {
> policy: {
> max\_merged\_segment: 5gb,
> segments\_per\_tier: 10,
> max\_merge\_at\_once: 10
> }
> }
> }
>
> can anyone help me
>
> Thanks
>
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### Author:  [@shanmuthu83](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanmuthu83)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-throttling-info-message-comes-in-es-1-3-1-version/22525/3 "2015-03-06T07:26:07Z")
ok will check let u know
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-throttling-info-message-comes-in-es-1-3-1-version/22525/4 "2017-07-06T00:28:10Z")