# Old question but at a loss http\_request which is larger than the limit of \[\*\*\*\*\*/4.1gb\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-question-but-at-a-loss-http-request-which-is-larger-than-the-limit-of-4-1gb/329295>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-question-but-at-a-loss-http-request-which-is-larger-than-the-limit-of-4-1gb/329295 "2023-04-04T08:39:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![uschellh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/65b543/32.png) [@uschellh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uschellh)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-question-but-at-a-loss-http-request-which-is-larger-than-the-limit-of-4-1gb/329295/1 "2023-04-04T08:39:28Z")

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Hello,  
i already increased Java Heap sizes for graylog-server which is 4.3.13 and elasticsearch . According to the nodes overview, my settings for graylog of 8/12 gb are not filled. Elasticsearch can do searches (sometimes ) and usually has at least 20g on any of the 4 nodes. Nevertheless my Logfiles gets flooded with those errors, and i dont know where i would be able to rise the 4.1 Gb limit ?

thanks for hints

[parent] Data too large, data for [\<http\_request\>] would be [4449250311/4.1gb], which is larger than the limit of [4448655769/4.1gb], usages [request=0/0b, fielddata=1012822694/965.9mb, in\_flight\_requests=594083/580.1kb, accounting=3435833534/3.1gb], errorDetails=[[parent] Data too large, data for [\<http\_request\>] would be [4449250311/4.1gb], which is larger than the limit of [4448655769/4.1gb], usages [request=0/0b, fielddata=1012822694/965.9mb, in\_flight\_requests=594083/580.1kb, accounting=3435833534/3.1gb]]}

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**Author:** ![uschellh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/65b543/32.png) [@uschellh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uschellh)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-question-but-at-a-loss-http-request-which-is-larger-than-the-limit-of-4-1gb/329295/2 "2023-04-04T08:48:02Z")

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ok turns out the messages were caused by node 3 which has 26gb elasticsearch heap, i restarted elasticsearch. i found out by having seen its missing from assigned shards overview  
curl -X GET localhost:9200/\_cat/allocation?v&pretty

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-question-but-at-a-loss-http-request-which-is-larger-than-the-limit-of-4-1gb/329295/3 "2023-04-04T08:54:54Z")

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What is the output of:

```auto
GET /
GET /_cat/nodes?v
GET /_cat/health?v
GET /_cat/indices?v

```

If some outputs are too big, please share them on [gist.github.com](http://gist.github.com) and link them here.

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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:** [May 2, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-question-but-at-a-loss-http-request-which-is-larger-than-the-limit-of-4-1gb/329295/4 "2023-05-02T08:55:26Z")

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