# High number of processes by elastic user

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-processes-by-elastic-user/105805>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-processes-by-elastic-user/105805 "2017-10-30T20:11:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manikanth\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Manikanth\_Reddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manikanth_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-processes-by-elastic-user/105805/1 "2017-10-30T20:11:26Z")

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Hi,

In my ES cluster, I can see number of processes(threads) for elastic user are getting increased. When I ran ps -o nlwp , it is showing as 7263 on client node and its keep on increasing. For data node, its around 1800. But in prod cluster, its around 100 for both data nodes and client nodes. I am unable to understand this. Could anybody help me in this. Thanks in advance.

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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:** [November 27, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-number-of-processes-by-elastic-user/105805/2 "2017-11-27T20:11:34Z")

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