# Old Data Not Being Purged **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 7, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-data-not-being-purged/155718 "2018-11-07T12:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SamJWeissman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SamJWeissman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamJWeissman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-data-not-being-purged/155718/1 "2018-11-07T12:43:35Z")
Hello, I am currently using ElasticCloud and have been attempting to modify my documents by performing the same bulk index calls I used to insert them the first go around. I was under the impression that these index calls should just update documents with the same \_ids ( which it appears to be doing ). Unfortunately, where as my memory pressure/disk usage would previously drop (around 75%), it is now just continuously going up (up to 93% right now). I do not have duplicate searchable documents, and I do see that the version of the documents I've touched have had their version numbers increased. So it seems like the "index" operations are correctly performing "updates". However, being that memory/disk usage just keeps going up, my only explanation is that the older documents are not being purged from memory/disk. Not really sure where to go from here outside of deleting the entire index and actually starting from scratch. Any help would be greatly appreciated ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-data-not-being-purged/155718/2 "2018-12-05T12:43:52Z")
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