# ES Heap Issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-heap-issues/67862>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 2, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-heap-issues/67862 "2016-12-02T13:52:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Phani\_Nadiminti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phani_nadiminti/32/45381_2.png) [@Phani\_Nadiminti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phani_Nadiminti)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-heap-issues/67862/1 "2016-12-02T13:52:46Z")

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Hi All,

ES heap is not clearing when heap memory percentage is \>=85% . can you please suggest why garbage collector not cleaning this if heap is more.or any configurations we need to change at ES side.please advice me

thanks  
phani

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-heap-issues/67862/2 "2016-12-04T07:43:25Z")

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What version? Are you using Monitoring to keep an eye on things?

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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:** [January 1, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-heap-issues/67862/3 "2017-01-01T07:43:27Z")

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Closed on January 1, 2017, 7:43am UTC

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