# 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")\
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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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