# Problems with flood stage watermark setting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-flood-stage-watermark-setting/172606>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-flood-stage-watermark-setting/172606 "2019-03-15T21:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![David9](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/david9/32/42150_2.png) [@David9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David9)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-flood-stage-watermark-setting/172606/1 "2019-03-15T21:55:10Z")

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I'm doing some experimentation on my Mac. I have no data in ES. I create an index and add a few small documents (using the python elasticsearch\_dsl library).

I then get this in the stderr after a few documents successfully get indexed:

`[2019-03-15T17:50:45,215][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [qEP99z5] flood stage disk watermark [95%] exceeded on [qEP99z5lRXqLTZ3oNljwqQ][qEP99z5][/usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 24.9gb[2.6%], all indices on this node will be marked read-only`

I don't know how to adjust the following settings to get this to stop. I have 100 GB free on my laptop.

```
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.flood_stage: 95%
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low: 85%
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high: 90%

```

Ideally, if I could index about 10GB of data, I'd be happy.  
Thanks.

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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:** [March 16, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-flood-stage-watermark-setting/172606/2 "2019-03-16T00:11:30Z")

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what about this?

```
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled: false
```

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**Author:** ![David9](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/david9/32/42150_2.png) [@David9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David9)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-flood-stage-watermark-setting/172606/3 "2019-03-16T00:46:01Z")

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thanks, I'll try it.

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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:** [April 13, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-flood-stage-watermark-setting/172606/4 "2019-04-13T00:46:02Z")

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