# Machine learning jobs: soft and hard limit

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-jobs-soft-and-hard-limit/254023>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\
**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-jobs-soft-and-hard-limit/254023 "2020-11-02T13:06:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TheHunter1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thehunter1/32/80190_2.png) [@TheHunter1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheHunter1)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-jobs-soft-and-hard-limit/254023/1 "2020-11-02T13:06:08Z")

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Hello everybody,

I am running elasticsearch machine learning jobs and in some of them I am getting in their memory status: `hard_limit` and `soft_limit`

and other type of error is : Datafeed has missed X documents due to ingest latency ... Consider increasing query\_delay.

Could you please explain these errors and how can I solve them ?

Thanks for your help 😁

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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-jobs-soft-and-hard-limit/254023/2 "2020-11-02T14:22:44Z")

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See `model_memory_limit` at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-job.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-job.html)

Also, you can [search these forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/search?q=%22hard_limit%22%20tag%3Astack-machine-learning) and see if questions like this have been asked before. For example: [ML memory hits hard\_limit - closed](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-memory-hits-hard-limit-closed/108459)

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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-jobs-soft-and-hard-limit/254023/3 "2020-11-02T14:26:00Z")

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Also - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/machine-learning/7.9/ml-delayed-data-detection.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/machine-learning/7.9/ml-delayed-data-detection.html)

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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:** [November 30, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-jobs-soft-and-hard-limit/254023/4 "2020-11-30T14:26:35Z")

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