# "failed to process cluster event (update-settings) within 30s"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-process-cluster-event-update-settings-within-30s/86633>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-process-cluster-event-update-settings-within-30s/86633 "2017-05-22T09:00:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![McElroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mcelroy/32/24639_2.png) [@McElroy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/McElroy)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-process-cluster-event-update-settings-within-30s/86633/1 "2017-05-22T09:00:59Z")

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Hi,

I posted here last week because of the strange behaviour of my cluster. Now I wanted to shrink my shards, but everytime i try to do it, I get:  
`{ "error" : { "root_cause" : [{ "type" : "process_cluster_event_timeout_exception", "reason" : "failed to process cluster event (update-settings) within 30s" }], "type" : "process_cluster_event_timeout_exception", "reason" : "failed to process cluster event (update-settings) within 30s" }, "status" : 503 }`

this is my cluster status. My pending tasks seem to be pretty big as well  
`{ "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch", "status" : "green", "timed_out" : false, "number_of_nodes" : 5, "number_of_data_nodes" : 4, "active_primary_shards" : 9275, "active_shards" : 23575, "relocating_shards" : 15, "initializing_shards" : 0, "unassigned_shards" : 0, "delayed_unassigned_shards" : 0, "number_of_pending_tasks" : 44014, "number_of_in_flight_fetch" : 0, "task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis" : 4733044, "active_shards_percent_as_number" : 100.0 }`

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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:** [June 19, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-process-cluster-event-update-settings-within-30s/86633/2 "2017-06-19T09:01:15Z")

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