# Specific timeout for forcemerge request

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specific-timeout-for-forcemerge-request/231089>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specific-timeout-for-forcemerge-request/231089 "2020-05-05T07:19:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![tombee74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tombee74/32/54223_2.png) [@tombee74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tombee74)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specific-timeout-for-forcemerge-request/231089/1 "2020-05-05T07:19:53Z")

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Hello,

I'm using 'sync' force-merge request after bulk-indexing of large data set (230 millions documents).  
The client timeouts after 10 mins:  
`java.net.SocketTimeoutException: 600,000 milliseconds timeout on connection http-outgoing-0`

I'm using ES Java client (7.6.1), code:

```auto
ForceMergeRequest request = new ForceMergeRequest();
request.maxNumSegments(5);
client.indices().forcemerge(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);

```

Is there an option to overwrite the "global socket timeout" specifically for forcemerge request?  
Let say I would use 30 minutes for forcemerge and 1 minute for the rest?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specific-timeout-for-forcemerge-request/231089/2 "2020-05-05T08:30:59Z")

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The client re-uses HTTP connections for multiple requests which I think prevents us from changing the socket timeout on a per-request basis.

You can, however, make a different client just for force-merging and use `RestClientBuilder#setRequestConfigCallback` to adjust its timeout.

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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:** [June 2, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specific-timeout-for-forcemerge-request/231089/3 "2020-06-02T08:31:04Z")

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