# ES 2.3.3 Force merge not merging?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-3-3-force-merge-not-merging/66311>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 16, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-3-3-force-merge-not-merging/66311 "2016-11-16T21:56:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![cheruvian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cheruvian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheruvian)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-3-3-force-merge-not-merging/66311/2 "2016-11-16T22:02:19Z")

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Unfortunately we've seen that force merges can take hours to complete.

There also doesn't appear to be good progress or status tracking of the merge.

[I just posted about this here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-merge-api-status/66020)

Another thing to watch out for is that apparently merges are not throttled and can consume many resources on a node which we have seen (ref: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/merge-process.html#CO41-1](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/merge-process.html#CO41-1))

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