# Tips for setting new ES indices and cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tips-for-setting-new-es-indices-and-cluster/173207>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tips-for-setting-new-es-indices-and-cluster/173207 "2019-03-20T18:59:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ansamHox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@ansamHox](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ansamHox)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tips-for-setting-new-es-indices-and-cluster/173207/23 "2019-03-24T12:33:26Z")

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Does this looks strange? Await is very large, but utilization is small.. wondering why and how? What is normal range for "await" time?

> ```
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
> sda 0.09 57.49 0.15 18.29 17.52 607.14 33.88 0.03 1.39 0.48 0.88
> dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.28 0.12 16.37 0.00 26.46 1.14 0.00
> dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.12 0.92 2.61 15.18 0.00 5.22 0.31 0.01
> dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 33.57 0.00 4.62 1.69 0.00
> dm-3 0.00 0.00 0.52 101.60 87.43 814.06 8.83 0.28 2.74 0.10 0.98
> dm-4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.99 0.00 1.56 1.14 0.00
> dm-5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.29 0.04 2.35 8.10 0.00 3.35 0.47 0.01
> dm-6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.27 0.00 2.20 8.00 0.00 2.01 0.82 0.02
> dm-7 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.72 0.03 5.72 8.03 0.00 1.41 0.59 0.04
> sdb 0.00 9.42 0.20 5.74 33.20 121.86 26.10 0.02 3.15 0.44 0.26
> sdc 0.00 8.08 0.20 3.98 38.00 97.21 32.28 0.02 4.92 0.54 0.23
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> ```

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tips-for-setting-new-es-indices-and-cluster/173207/24 "2019-03-24T13:23:45Z")

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There is no normal range. The more you have the more it is likely affecting performance.

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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:** [April 21, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tips-for-setting-new-es-indices-and-cluster/173207/25 "2019-04-21T13:23:47Z")

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