# On startup it takes a long time for Elasticsearch to write the first message to a log file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-startup-it-takes-a-long-time-for-elasticsearch-to-write-the-first-message-to-a-log-file/21119
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 6, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-startup-it-takes-a-long-time-for-elasticsearch-to-write-the-first-message-to-a-log-file/21119 "2014-12-06T16:27:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Feinstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Feinstein)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-startup-it-takes-a-long-time-for-elasticsearch-to-write-the-first-message-to-a-log-file/21119/1 "2014-12-06T16:27:19Z")
Hi,
I have ES version 1.4.1 installed on RedHat 6.5. The data is relatively
small about 3.5Gb. The cluster contains two nodes sometimes it takes about
30 mins to start the first node after shutdown. No log messages are written
to the log during this time.
Is it a normal behavior? Is it possible to improve it?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-startup-it-takes-a-long-time-for-elasticsearch-to-write-the-first-message-to-a-log-file/21119/2 "2014-12-07T08:39:11Z")
No that is very unusual, try setting some of the logging to debug
(logging.yml).
On 7 December 2014 at 03:27, Daniel Feinstein [daniel@tolunadocs.com](mailto:daniel@tolunadocs.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have ES version 1.4.1 installed on RedHat 6.5. The data is relatively
> small about 3.5Gb. The cluster contains two nodes sometimes it takes about
> 30 mins to start the first node after shutdown. No log messages are written
> to the log during this time.
>
> Is it a normal behavior? Is it possible to improve it?
>
> Thanks
>
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Feinstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Feinstein)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-startup-it-takes-a-long-time-for-elasticsearch-to-write-the-first-message-to-a-log-file/21119/3 "2014-12-07T13:26:23Z")
I have enabled all possible logs in the logging.yml (attached) - the same
behavior.
On Sunday, December 7, 2014 10:39:39 AM UTC+2, Mark Walkom wrote:
> No that is very unusual, try setting some of the logging to debug
> (logging.yml).
>
> On 7 December 2014 at 03:27, Daniel Feinstein \<[dan...@tolunadocs.com](mailto:dan...@tolunadocs.com)
> \\> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have ES version 1.4.1 installed on RedHat 6.5. The data is relatively
> > small about 3.5Gb. The cluster contains two nodes sometimes it takes about
> > 30 mins to start the first node after shutdown. No log messages are written
> > to the log during this time.
> >
> > Is it a normal behavior? Is it possible to improve it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-startup-it-takes-a-long-time-for-elasticsearch-to-write-the-first-message-to-a-log-file/21119/4 "2017-07-06T00:45:13Z")