# High Number of Operations Possibly Killing Write? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 24, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210 "2018-05-24T18:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![titan1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@titan1978](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/titan1978)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210/1 "2018-05-24T18:45:36Z")
Hello - Can someone help me understand what the OPERATIONS metrics below signify? we are facing read timeouts whilst POSTING to this specific index. We noticed a lot of Flush/Refresh/Merges (see below) on this index! Could they be the cause of the timeouts? also - its been like this for a few hours - any suggestions on how to "Cool" down this index to make it serviceable for writes? INDEX: myapp-2018.05.12-000011 **Documents** Primaries Total Size 828.2 MB 1.6 GB Documents 144,761 289,522 Deleted 0 0 Field Data Cache 0 B 0 B **Operations** Flush 30 Refresh 104,217 Merges 11,243 ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210/2 "2018-05-24T19:14:56Z")
Are you by any chance performing a lot of reasonably frequent updates? Which version are you on? ---
**Author:** ![titan1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@titan1978](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/titan1978)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210/3 "2018-05-24T19:17:17Z")
yes - but its a one time bulk Write to this specific index. Version 5.5 - am curious if the writes die down - would this operations settle down? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210/4 "2018-05-25T05:10:27Z")
How frequently are you updating a single document? What is your average document size? ---
**Author:** ![titan1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@titan1978](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/titan1978)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210/5 "2018-05-25T12:47:35Z")
we never update a document. its only inserts and its only a few KB in an extreme case. But we did do a large number inserts. FYI I did check this morning and the stats haven't changed. The index is NOT in use in any read/write capacity for now. Are these stats a false negative? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-operations-possibly-killing-write/133210/6 "2018-06-22T12:47:40Z")
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