# Search.queue size too high for a single query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 15, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495 "2016-04-15T11:35:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@JD557](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JD557)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495/1 "2016-04-15T11:35:26Z")
After doing some monitoring using `_cat/thread_pool`, I've been noticing that some of my search queries spawn a huge number of entries in the `search.queue`, which leads to a bunch of rejected searches.
The numbers in `search.active` seems to be correct (they seem to be the number of search queries that I'm executing), but what is the number `search.queue`? Why is it so big (~800) for a single query?
Is the number of elements in the queue larger for queries with more indices or that need to hit more shards?
How can I change my queries to reduce this number?
(I'm using elasticsearch 2.2.0)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495/2 "2016-04-16T20:30:25Z")
What does the query look like?
How are you issuing it to the cluster?
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### Author:  [@JD557](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JD557)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495/3 "2016-04-16T23:45:06Z")
I've seen this happen with multiple queries, but here's one such example:
[http://pastebin.com/v2bnzt0P](http://pastebin.com/v2bnzt0P)
(This query is executed on multiple indices using a wildcard).
The queries are being sent to the cluster via the elastic4s scala client (which is just a wrapper to the java client, AFAIK).
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495/4 "2016-04-18T13:41:18Z")
This could happen if you are either querying many indices, or if your indices have too many shards.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-queue-size-too-high-for-a-single-query/47495/5 "2017-07-05T22:58:30Z")