# Index Memory management user-wise

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-memory-management-user-wise/7631>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-memory-management-user-wise/7631 "2012-05-10T11:31:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arien)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-memory-management-user-wise/7631/1 "2012-05-10T11:31:35Z")

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Hi all  
I have some weird to do involving memory management for each user in  
individual index.  
Lets say i have some user field on each record to be inserted in an  
index and when trying to index documents for that user i want to  
restrict him/her to index upto only 1 gb per say, not more than that.  
So my question is it possible to get the memory taken in an index by  
any user like firing a query against user field.  
Please give your suggestions on this.

Thanks;

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_at\_DataFeedFi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Andrew\_at\_DataFeedFi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_at_DataFeedFi)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-memory-management-user-wise/7631/2 "2012-05-10T15:23:39Z")

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Arien,

If you use one index per user than you can use the index stats api

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the option you are interested in is 'store', so your URL should look  
like this:

[http://localhost:9200/index1/\_stats?store=true](http://localhost:9200/index1/_stats?store=true)

--Andrew

On May 10, 6:31 am, arien [ajaypa...@gmail.com](mailto:ajaypa...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi all  
> I have some weird to do involving memory management for each user in  
> individual index.  
> Lets say i have some user field on each record to be inserted in an  
> index and when trying to index documents for that user i want to  
> restrict him/her to index upto only 1 gb per say, not more than that.  
> So my question is it possible to get the memory taken in an index by  
> any user like firing a query against user field.  
> Please give your suggestions on this.
> 
> Thanks;

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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, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-memory-management-user-wise/7631/3 "2017-07-06T03:29:25Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:29am UTC