# Filebeat start too long when registry is too large
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-start-too-long-when-registry-is-too-large/184177
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 4, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-start-too-long-when-registry-is-too-large/184177 "2019-06-04T12:31:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jasper-zhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasper-zhang)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-start-too-long-when-registry-is-too-large/184177/1 "2019-06-04T12:31:40Z")
My registry is about 13M. When I restart Filebeat, It spends about 2 hours before start Harvester.
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-start-too-long-when-registry-is-too-large/184177/2 "2019-06-05T07:45:04Z")
Have you set the option `clean_removed`? If not, see its documentation here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/filebeat-input-log.html#filebeat-input-log-clean-removed](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/filebeat-input-log.html#filebeat-input-log-clean-removed)
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### Author:  [@jasper-zhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasper-zhang)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-start-too-long-when-registry-is-too-large/184177/3 "2019-06-05T08:34:07Z")
I have set the option `clean_removed`, but a large number of new files are produced every day, and these files must be keeped on server for 7 days.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-start-too-long-when-registry-is-too-large/184177/4 "2019-07-03T08:39:29Z")
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