# Heap Allocation Failures on 8.17

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-allocation-failures-on-8-17/372211>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** runtime-fields\
**Created:** [December 19, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-allocation-failures-on-8-17/372211 "2024-12-19T08:54:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evesy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evesy/32/29520_2.png) [@Evesy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Evesy)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-allocation-failures-on-8-17/372211/7 "2024-12-20T08:03:34Z")

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As a further test I introduced an additional hot node to the cluster to reduce the total # of shards on each node, as well as the amount of writes & reads each hot node would be handling, but the same OOM's have been observed across all hot nodes again, between 20:30 - 01:00

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