# Indices.store.throttle.max\_bytes\_per\_sec config setting and 2.2
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-store-throttle-max-bytes-per-sec-config-setting-and-2-2/44771
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-store-throttle-max-bytes-per-sec-config-setting-and-2-2/44771 "2016-03-17T20:40:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@asharif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asharif)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-store-throttle-max-bytes-per-sec-config-setting-and-2-2/44771/1 "2016-03-17T20:40:35Z")
So I didn't see
indices.store.throttle.max\_bytes\_per\_sec
in the new 2.2 documentation (or I missed it cause I suck). I did however see
index.merge.scheduler.max\_thread\_count
by lowering or increasing the merge thread pool is that how we can control or throttle segment merging?
---
### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-store-throttle-max-bytes-per-sec-config-setting-and-2-2/44771/2 "2016-03-18T00:16:32Z")
Merging now auto throttles, so you shouldn't need to worry about changing anything here.
What's your reason for looking at this stuff?
---
### Author:  [@asharif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asharif)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-store-throttle-max-bytes-per-sec-config-setting-and-2-2/44771/3 "2016-03-18T01:07:21Z")
Many thanks! Our indexing rate is growing. It's probably not nearly as much as some other applications, but we are growing and is currently at around 200k-220k per second. In 1.6.0 I found that indexing was being throttled because of the merges. So I found [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/indexing-performance.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/indexing-performance.html) which has some tips. One of which was the above config =). Any other pointers, or documents that can be provided on improving indexing rates (from a software perspective) above all else in 2.2 would be greatly appreciated. The following settings have also always helped and they seem to still be around in 2.2:
index.refresh\_interval:
index.translog.flush\_threshold\_size:
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-store-throttle-max-bytes-per-sec-config-setting-and-2-2/44771/4 "2017-07-05T23:07:21Z")