# Messages sitting in index.queue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-sitting-in-index-queue/36130>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 2, 2015, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-sitting-in-index-queue/36130 "2015-12-02T07:11:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![esadmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4bbf92/32.png) [@esadmin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/esadmin)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-sitting-in-index-queue/36130/1 "2015-12-02T07:11:41Z")

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Are the messages sitting in index.queue on a disk or in memory? Is a growing number of such messages an indication of cluster being overloaded? Where should I look for problems?  
Thanks  
/ni

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-sitting-in-index-queue/36130/2 "2015-12-03T05:59:38Z")

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It'll be in memory, stuff like that could mean your nodes are overloaded.  
Are you using Marvel?

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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 5, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-sitting-in-index-queue/36130/3 "2017-07-05T23:33:59Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:33pm UTC