# There is no response of \_forcemerge api
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-is-no-response-of--forcemerge-api/53749
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-is-no-response-of--forcemerge-api/53749 "2016-06-23T08:36:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@famoss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/famoss)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-is-no-response-of--forcemerge-api/53749/1 "2016-06-23T08:36:45Z")
I use `delete by query` plugin to delete docs,and then want to use `forcemerge` api to release the disk space.
Here are my index stats response.`curl localhost:9200/ota-frontloglist-2016-06-21/_stats`
```
"docs": {
"count": 114648,
"deleted": 5311
},
"merges": {
"current": 0,
"current_docs": 0,
"current_size_in_bytes": 0,
"total": 0,
"total_time_in_millis": 0,
"total_docs": 0,
"total_size_in_bytes": 0,
"total_stopped_time_in_millis": 0,
"total_throttled_time_in_millis": 0,
"total_auto_throttle_in_bytes": 125829120
},
```
Here is my force merge command `curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/ota-frontloglist-2016-06-21/_forcemerge?only_expunge_deletes=true'`
I waited a long time, but the `index stats` has no change.
my `elasticsearch`'s version `V2.3.1`
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-is-no-response-of--forcemerge-api/53749/2 "2016-07-05T08:04:21Z")
Hi @famoss,
how long did you wait? Did the curl with the force merge succeed? What was the HTTP status code? Also: Did you look at the Elasticsearch logs (i.e. what Elasticsearch did during this time)?
Daniel
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-is-no-response-of--forcemerge-api/53749/3 "2017-07-05T22:38:19Z")