# Pointers to Improve indexing performance?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pointers-to-improve-indexing-performance/73369>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 31, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pointers-to-improve-indexing-performance/73369 "2017-01-31T13:16:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pointers-to-improve-indexing-performance/73369/4 "2017-01-31T18:13:36Z")

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@JKhondhu 20 Primary Shards, we have set the refresh interval to 1 hour, as we heard, it will degrade the indexing performance, if we have refresh interval set to 1 sec(default).

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