# Long query starving other small queries and slowing down the cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 10, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-query-starving-other-small-queries-and-slowing-down-the-cluster/163665 "2019-01-10T07:18:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dextermorgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dextermorgan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dextermorgan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-query-starving-other-small-queries-and-slowing-down-the-cluster/163665/1 "2019-01-10T07:18:53Z")
Hi All, I am on elastic search 5.4. Problem - I run 4 parallel queries and get following response times - Q1 - 6234 Q2 - 12787 Q3 - 12881 Q4 - 16933 When I run sequentially - Q1 - 4 Q2 - 6 Q3 - 761 Q4 - 16569 Setup 4 i3.4x nodes with 31G to ES and rest 30 G for FS and with 16 search threads per node. As we can see, one long query is slowing down/starving rest of queries. Now my question is, is there a way if we can optionally fix search threads per query so that other small queries still get executed in justified time? ---
**Author:** ![dextermorgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dextermorgan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dextermorgan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-query-starving-other-small-queries-and-slowing-down-the-cluster/163665/2 "2019-01-16T12:05:32Z")
Can anyone answer this? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-query-starving-other-small-queries-and-slowing-down-the-cluster/163665/3 "2019-01-16T12:10:10Z")
No, as far as I know that is not possible. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-query-starving-other-small-queries-and-slowing-down-the-cluster/163665/4 "2019-02-13T12:10:13Z")
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