# Forcemerge status
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forcemerge-status/54861
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 6, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forcemerge-status/54861 "2016-07-06T18:39:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Andres_Ramirez)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forcemerge-status/54861/1 "2016-07-06T18:39:27Z")
Hello Guys,
I don't have issues with forcemerge, is work for me as well.
My question about this topic is the following:
I applied the following command:
```
`curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.06.06/_forcemerge?only_expunge_deletes=true'
```
It takes around 4 hours, because I expunge around 100 million documents or more, so, exists some method to know if the forcemerge is still working?. I want to know when the process finish, I was thinking send me an e-mail when the forcemerge is finished
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forcemerge-status/54861/2 "2016-07-06T21:12:18Z")
The only way would be to watch the number of deleted docs.
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### Author:  [@Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Andres_Ramirez)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forcemerge-status/54861/3 "2016-07-06T21:28:45Z")
Understood.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forcemerge-status/54861/4 "2017-07-05T22:37:33Z")