# ES not respecting indices.fielddata.cache.size setting?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-not-respecting-indices-fielddata-cache-size-setting/19903>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 22, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-not-respecting-indices-fielddata-cache-size-setting/19903 "2014-09-22T02:15:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Felipe\_Hummel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felipe_hummel/32/1263_2.png) [@Felipe\_Hummel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felipe_Hummel)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-not-respecting-indices-fielddata-cache-size-setting/19903/1 "2014-09-22T02:15:40Z")

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My ES 1.3.2 cluster seems to not respect the indices.fielddata.cache.size  
setting.

I’ve tried 65% or 4GB (HEAP size being 7GB), but the Field Size never goes  
over 1.2GB although the Field Eviction keeps going up.

In summary: field data cache is evicting stuff even though its size doesn’t  
go over 1.2GB

Circuit break is default

My elasticsearch.yml

discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 1  
path.data: /mnt/data  
path.logs: /mnt/logs  
index:  
query:  
bool:  
max\_clause\_count: 2048  
index.shard.check\_on\_startup: fix  
indices.cache.filter.size: 10%  
indices.fielddata.cache.size: 4GB

Any ideas?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-not-respecting-indices-fielddata-cache-size-setting/19903/2 "2017-07-06T01:00:47Z")

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