# Remove index settings **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-index-settings/10106 "2012-12-18T15:07:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jerome\_Gagnon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerome_gagnon/32/2178_2.png) [@Jerome\_Gagnon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerome_Gagnon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-index-settings/10106/1 "2012-12-18T15:07:47Z")
How does someone remove index setting ? Because i put "index.cache.filter.type" : "soft" and I have classNotfound exception : soft when trying the reopen the index... first is it normal ? and then how do i remove this setting from my index ? -- ---
**Author:** ![Jerome\_Gagnon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerome_gagnon/32/2178_2.png) [@Jerome\_Gagnon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerome_Gagnon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-index-settings/10106/2 "2012-12-18T15:21:25Z")
I am also trying to put max\_size to -1 (not set) and I get; Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: maximum size must not be negative On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:07:47 AM UTC-5, Jérôme Gagnon wrote: > How does someone remove index setting ? Because i put > "index.cache.filter.type" : "soft" and I have classNotfound exception : > soft when trying the reopen the index... > > first is it normal ? and then how do i remove this setting from my index ? -- ---
**Author:** ![Jerome\_Gagnon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerome_gagnon/32/2178_2.png) [@Jerome\_Gagnon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerome_Gagnon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-index-settings/10106/3 "2012-12-18T15:59:22Z")
Ok I figured out that in the document cache for filter is saying soft, weak or resident but in reality there is two type; none or weighted... updated that. But still cannot delete index setting as I wanted... On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:07:47 AM UTC-5, Jérôme Gagnon wrote: > How does someone remove index setting ? Because i put > "index.cache.filter.type" : "soft" and I have classNotfound exception : > soft when trying the reopen the index... > > first is it normal ? and then how do i remove this setting from my index ? -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-index-settings/10106/4 "2012-12-18T17:09:40Z")
Only dynamic settings can be modified on an index. Only properties defined in IndexMetaData.dynamicSettings can be updated. They should work on closed indices, but I never had any luck. Also, setting the max\_size to -1 will not work since it is a limitation of Guava, the caching library used. IIRC, setting it to 0 will remove it completely. -- Ivan On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Jérôme Gagnon [jerome.gagnon.1@gmail.com](mailto:jerome.gagnon.1@gmail.com)wrote: > Ok I figured out that in the document cache for filter is saying soft, > weak or resident but in reality there is two type; none or weighted... > updated that. But still cannot delete index setting as I wanted... > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:07:47 AM UTC-5, Jérôme Gagnon wrote: > > > How does someone remove index setting ? Because i put > > "index.cache.filter.type" : "soft" and I have classNotfound exception : > > soft when trying the reopen the index... > > > > first is it normal ? and then how do i remove this setting from my index ? > > > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-index-settings/10106/5 "2017-07-06T02:59:27Z")