# How delete scroll\_id in elasticsearch-php api?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-delete-scroll-id-in-elasticsearch-php-api/208460
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-delete-scroll-id-in-elasticsearch-php-api/208460 "2019-11-19T09:05:26Z")
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### Author:  [@AndriyImp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndriyImp)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-delete-scroll-id-in-elasticsearch-php-api/208460/1 "2019-11-19T09:05:26Z")
Hi all!
can any know how to delete scroll\_id ?
In my case i have toons of data, so in update process i delte doc (per 10), but after some count of records I got error:
```
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"exception","reason":"Trying to create too many scroll contexts. Must be less than or equal to: [500]. This limit can be set by changing the [search.max_open_scroll_context] setting."}],"type":"search_phase_execution_exception","reason":"all shards failed","phase":"query","grouped":true,"failed_shards":[{"shard":0,"index":"enterprises","node":"Ak_cDKp2QGeOC2SA0Xnbug","reason":{"type":"exception","reason":"Trying to create too many scroll contexts. Must be less than or equal to: [500]. This limit can be set by changing the [search.max_open_scroll_context] setting."}}]},"status":500} {"exception":"[object] (Elasticsearch\\Common\\Exceptions\\ServerErrorResponseException(code: 500): {\"error\":{\"root_cause\":[{\"type\":\"exception\",\"reason\":\"Trying to create too many scroll contexts. Must be less than or equal to: [500]. This limit can be set by changing the [search.max_open_scroll_context] setting.\"}],\"type\":\"search_phase_execution_exception\",\"reason\":\"all shards failed\",\"phase\":\"query\",\"grouped\":true,\"failed_shards\":[{\"shard\":0,\"index\":\"enterprises\",\"node\":\"Ak_cDKp2QGeOC2SA0Xnbug\",\"reason\":{\"type\":\"exception\",\"reason\":\"Trying to create too many scroll contexts. Must be less than or equal to: [500]. This limit can be set by changing the [search.max_open_scroll_context] setting.\"}}]},\"status\":500} at /home/angryalf/www/postly.be/vendor/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/src/Elasticsearch/Connections/Connection.php:660)
```
any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@AndriyImp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndriyImp)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-delete-scroll-id-in-elasticsearch-php-api/208460/2 "2019-11-19T09:12:19Z")
Sorry, found solution for:
```
->clearScroll([
'scroll_id' => $response['_scroll_id']
]);
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-delete-scroll-id-in-elasticsearch-php-api/208460/3 "2019-12-17T09:12:20Z")
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