# I think my heap is sized right but searches are still super slow

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-think-my-heap-is-sized-right-but-searches-are-still-super-slow/83914 "2017-04-27T17:37:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-think-my-heap-is-sized-right-but-searches-are-still-super-slow/83914/7 "2017-05-01T11:30:50Z")

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VMs, usually just 5 to 10 shards. I'm just using the discover pane in kibana.

But with my current config are there any red flags?

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