# How to throttle analyzing (stemming, tokenizing, etc)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-throttle-analyzing-stemming-tokenizing-etc/12990>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-throttle-analyzing-stemming-tokenizing-etc/12990 "2013-07-29T19:50:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bruno\_Miranda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bruno_miranda/32/746_2.png) [@Bruno\_Miranda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bruno_Miranda)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-throttle-analyzing-stemming-tokenizing-etc/12990/1 "2013-07-29T19:50:45Z")

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One one my indexes contains a lengthy text field that needs to be analyzed.  
During bulk index this causes the CPU of the ES instance to go to 100%  
utilization. Is there a way to throttle this process?

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**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-throttle-analyzing-stemming-tokenizing-etc/12990/2 "2013-07-29T22:52:07Z")

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What is the analyzer of the field? Can you give an example of the lengthy  
text?

Jörg

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Bruno Miranda [bru.miranda@gmail.com](mailto:bru.miranda@gmail.com)wrote:

> One one my indexes contains a lengthy text field that needs to be  
> analyzed. During bulk index this causes the CPU of the ES instance to go to  
> 100% utilization. Is there a way to throttle this process?
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**Author:** ![simonw\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simonw_2/32/1130_2.png) [@simonw\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simonw_2)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-throttle-analyzing-stemming-tokenizing-etc/12990/3 "2013-08-02T20:15:11Z")

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maybe send less docs in the bulk or dont' send the bulks concurrently?

On Monday, July 29, 2013 9:50:45 PM UTC+2, Bruno Miranda wrote:

> One one my indexes contains a lengthy text field that needs to be  
> analyzed. During bulk index this causes the CPU of the ES instance to go to  
> 100% utilization. Is there a way to throttle this process?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-throttle-analyzing-stemming-tokenizing-etc/12990/4 "2017-07-06T02:23:11Z")

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