# Flush

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/flush/8660>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 7, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/flush/8660 "2012-08-07T22:14:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Rahul\_Sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rahul\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rahul_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/flush/8660/1 "2012-08-07T22:14:34Z")

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Is it a good idea to call flush explicitly once indexing is done.  
I see that after calling flush it clears up the translogs and hence the  
disk space frees up.

Thanks  
Rahul

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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, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/flush/8660/2 "2017-07-06T03:17:23Z")

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