# ElasticSearch Stop Working after 2-3 Hours and Needs to restart the server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-stop-working-after-2-3-hours-and-needs-to-restart-the-server/67822>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 2, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-stop-working-after-2-3-hours-and-needs-to-restart-the-server/67822 "2016-12-02T04:30:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![waqaskakar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@waqaskakar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/waqaskakar)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-stop-working-after-2-3-hours-and-needs-to-restart-the-server/67822/1 "2016-12-02T04:30:46Z")

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Hello,

I am a developer and have just recently start working on ElasticSearch. Here is the status  
{  
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch",  
"status" : "yellow",  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"number\_of\_nodes" : 1,  
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1,  
"active\_primary\_shards" : 15,  
"active\_shards" : 15,  
"relocating\_shards" : 0,  
"initializing\_shards" : 0,  
"unassigned\_shards" : 15,  
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0,  
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,  
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0,  
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0,  
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 50.0  
}  
AND

curl [http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices)  
yellow open marham\_index 5 1 6550 0 1.8mb 1.8mb  
yellow open disease\_index 5 1 164 0 60.2kb 60.2kb  
yellow open service\_index 5 1 531 0 84.7kb 84.7kb

We are using a VPS with 2 GB ram. Can any one please help me

Best Regards:  
Waqas Kakar

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**Author:** ![ywelsch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ywelsch/32/7751_2.png) [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-stop-working-after-2-3-hours-and-needs-to-restart-the-server/67822/2 "2016-12-02T08:09:25Z")

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what do you mean by "stops working"? What does not work anymore? Have you had a look at the logs?

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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:** [December 30, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-stop-working-after-2-3-hours-and-needs-to-restart-the-server/67822/3 "2016-12-30T08:09:35Z")

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