# Merge Size increased by 600 GB

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/merge-size-increased-by-600-gb/12169>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 29, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/merge-size-increased-by-600-gb/12169 "2013-05-29T12:44:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Arslan\_Hassan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arslan_hassan/32/2316_2.png) [@Arslan\_Hassan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arslan_Hassan)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/merge-size-increased-by-600-gb/12169/1 "2013-05-29T12:44:52Z")

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_Mapping Json_

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}  
}  
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"description": {  
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"include\_in\_all": true  
},  
"date\_added": {  
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"include\_in\_all": true,  
"format": "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"  
},  
"status": {  
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"include\_in\_all": true  
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},  
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I did refresh document on indexing before but it has been stopped from a  
long time, at that time merge size was around 60Gig and now it has Jumped  
to 600GB , please tell me what could be wrong?

I have not changed any merge policy, should i change it now?

Index tune  
size: 205.3mb (412.3mb)  
docs: 195179 (223489)

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**Author:** ![Arslan\_Hassan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arslan_hassan/32/2316_2.png) [@Arslan\_Hassan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arslan_Hassan)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/merge-size-increased-by-600-gb/12169/2 "2013-05-29T12:56:36Z")

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On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:44:52 PM UTC+5, Arslan Hassan wrote:

> _Mapping Json_
> 
> {  
> "number\_of\_shards": 4,  
> "number\_of\_replicas": 1,  
> "analysis": {  
> "analyzer": {  
> "indexAnalyzer": {  
> "type": "custom",  
> "tokenizer": "standard",  
> "filter": [  
> "lowercase",  
> "mySnowball"  
> ]  
> },  
> "searchAnalyzer": {  
> "type": "custom",  
> "tokenizer": "standard",  
> "filter": [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "mySnowball"  
> ]  
> },  
> "suggest\_analyzer": {  
> "type": "custom",  
> "tokenizer": "standard",  
> "filter": [  
> "standard",  
> "lowercase",  
> "my\_shingle"  
> ],  
> "char\_filter": "html\_strip"  
> },  
> "cb\_tag\_analyzer": {  
> "type": "custom",  
> "tokenizer": "semicolon\_token"  
> }  
> },  
> "filter": {  
> "mySnowball": {  
> "type": "snowball",  
> "language": "English"  
> },  
> "my\_ngram": {  
> "type": "edgeNGram",  
> "min\_gram": 2,  
> "max\_gram": 50,  
> "side": "front"  
> },  
> "my\_shingle": {  
> "type": "shingle",  
> "min\_shingle\_sizes": 2,  
> "max\_shingle\_size": 50,  
> "side": "front"  
> }  
> },  
> "tokenizer": {  
> "semicolon\_token": {  
> "type": "pattern",  
> "pattern": ","  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }{  
> "suggest": {  
> "index\_analyzer": "indexAnalyzer",  
> "search\_analyzer": "searchAnalyzer",  
> "\_boost": {  
> "name": "\_boost",  
> "null\_value": 1  
> },  
> "properties": {  
> "title": {  
> "type": "multi\_field",  
> "include\_in\_all": true,  
> "fields": {  
> "title": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> },  
> "suggest": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "suggest\_analyzer"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "\_boost": {  
> "type": "float",  
> "include\_in\_all": false  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }{  
> "videos": {  
> "index\_analyzer": "indexAnalyzer",  
> "search\_analyzer": "searchAnalyzer",  
> "\_boost": {  
> "name": "\_boost",  
> "null\_value": 1  
> },  
> "properties": {  
> "videoid": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "include\_in\_all": false  
> },  
> "title": {  
> "type": "multi\_field",  
> "include\_in\_all": true,  
> "fields": {  
> "title": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "index": "not\_analyzed"  
> },  
> "suggest": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "suggest\_analyzer"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "tags": {  
> "type": "multi\_field",  
> "include\_in\_all": true,  
> "fields": {  
> "tags": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "cb\_tag\_analyzer"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "description": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "include\_in\_all": true  
> },  
> "date\_added": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "include\_in\_all": true,  
> "format": "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"  
> },  
> "status": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "include\_in\_all": true  
> },  
> "broadcast": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "include\_in\_all": true  
> },  
> "userid": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "include\_in\_all": false  
> },  
> "duration": {  
> "type": "float",  
> "include\_in\_all": true  
> },  
> "username": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "include\_in\_all": true  
> },  
> "\_boost": {  
> "type": "float",  
> "include\_in\_all": false  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> I did refresh document on indexing before but it has been stopped from a  
> long time, at that time merge size was around 60Gig and now it has Jumped  
> to 600GB , please tell me what could be wrong?
> 
> I have not changed any merge policy, should i change it now?
> 
> Index tune  
> size: 205.3mb (412.3mb)  
> docs: 195179 (223489)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/merge-size-increased-by-600-gb/12169/3 "2017-07-06T02:34:06Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:34am UTC