# Swap Space is high in HQ plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 24, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/swap-space-is-high-in-hq-plugin/17165 "2014-04-24T05:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![derekm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@derekm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/derekm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/swap-space-is-high-in-hq-plugin/17165/1 "2014-04-24T05:53:01Z")
Hi,all: this is my issue: 1 I am using plugin of HQ.0.99 2 the Swap Space is 9.3125 mb, high than the suggested value(1) 3 my config is bootstrap.mlockall: true, and ulimit -l ulimit I am confused with: 1, the Swap Space in HQ plugin means " the Swap Space used of the whole processes on the machine" or "only the ElasticSearch process"? 2 if the Swap Space means the ElasticSearch process, did I do the wrong config? 3 How do I reduce the "Swap Space"? Cheers ---
**Author:** ![derekm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@derekm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/derekm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/swap-space-is-high-in-hq-plugin/17165/2 "2014-04-24T10:13:57Z")
sorry for disturbing I check in es-document and found that discription: "Operating system stats, load average, cpu, mem, swap" and check the value of "swap used" in HQ plugin(9.3125 mb) is equal to the machine current swap used which I check by the "free" command: free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 64371 63494 877 0 142 29116 -/+ buffers/cache: 34235 30136 Swap: 8191 9 8182 I so appreciate someone would explain my confused: 1 es-process already lock the memory by config "bootstrap.mlockall: true", does the swap action is done by other process? 2 if the swap action is done by other process,how does it affect es-process's gc-action? ---
**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, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/swap-space-is-high-in-hq-plugin/17165/3 "2017-07-06T01:33:48Z")