# Is there any advantage to allocating more heap to ES load balancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 23, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-advantage-to-allocating-more-heap-to-es-load-balancer/9803 "2012-11-23T12:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/T_Vinod_Gupta)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-advantage-to-allocating-more-heap-to-es-load-balancer/9803/1 "2012-11-23T12:53:33Z")
if i have a no-data ES node that is going to act as a load balancer in a cluster, are there any performance benefits to giving it more heap? doesnt it act more like a relay and aggregator with perhaps high cpu utilization? does it need to be allocated high memory? thanks -- ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Maher\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/daniel_maher_3/32/2014_2.png) [@Daniel\_Maher\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Maher_3)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-advantage-to-allocating-more-heap-to-es-load-balancer/9803/2 "2012-11-23T16:32:51Z")
On 2012-11-23 1:53 PM, T Vinod Gupta wrote: > if i have a no-data ES node that is going to act as a load balancer in a > cluster, are there any performance benefits to giving it more heap? > doesnt it act more like a relay and aggregator with perhaps high cpu > utilization? does it need to be allocated high memory? It is my understanding that such a node does not have any particular need for large amounts of RAM. -- dan (phrawzty). mozilla webops; european outpost. -- ---
**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, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-advantage-to-allocating-more-heap-to-es-load-balancer/9803/3 "2017-07-06T03:03:06Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:03am UTC