# Very excessive highlight fragments **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/very-excessive-highlight-fragments/4620 "2011-06-14T18:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eric\_Mill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eric_mill/32/3124_2.png) [@Eric\_Mill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Mill)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/very-excessive-highlight-fragments/4620/1 "2011-06-14T18:59:49Z")
The opposite of my other problem - sometimes when I ask for highlighting back from ElasticSearch, the highlight excerpt is much, much larger than my requested fragment size. In one case, I got a highlight excerpt of over 34,000 characters, when my requested fragment size was only 200. Any ideas of how I can combat this? -- Eric ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/very-excessive-highlight-fragments/4620/2 "2011-06-14T19:54:37Z")
Hi, was it a single valued field of multi valued field? Any chance you can provide recreation script for this? Lukas On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Eric Mill [kprojection@gmail.com](mailto:kprojection@gmail.com) wrote: > The opposite of my other problem - sometimes when I ask for highlighting > back from Elasticsearch, the highlight excerpt is much, much larger than my > requested fragment size. In one case, I got a highlight excerpt of over > 34,000 characters, when my requested fragment size was only 200. > > Any ideas of how I can combat this? > > -- Eric ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Mill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eric_mill/32/3124_2.png) [@Eric\_Mill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Mill)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/very-excessive-highlight-fragments/4620/3 "2011-06-14T20:17:05Z")
The field is a single value field, just one big string. Not sure what you mean by recreation script - but I can try to provide more details if needed. I haven't exposed the Elasticsearch port publicly yet, but I could possibly do that if it helped with debugging. -- Eric On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Lukáš Vlček [lukas.vlcek@gmail.com](mailto:lukas.vlcek@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > was it a single valued field of multi valued field? Any chance you can > provide recreation script for this? > > Lukas > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Eric Mill [kprojection@gmail.com](mailto:kprojection@gmail.com) wrote: > > > The opposite of my other problem - sometimes when I ask for highlighting > > back from Elasticsearch, the highlight excerpt is much, much larger than my > > requested fragment size. In one case, I got a highlight excerpt of over > > 34,000 characters, when my requested fragment size was only 200. > > > > Any ideas of how I can combat this? > > > > -- Eric ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/very-excessive-highlight-fragments/4620/4 "2011-06-14T20:37:16Z")
Recreation script is a sequence of curl commands that can be used by others to get the same issue. Check [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/) for more info and examples about recreation script. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Eric Mill [kprojection@gmail.com](mailto:kprojection@gmail.com) wrote: > The field is a single value field, just one big string. Not sure what you > mean by recreation script - but I can try to provide more details if needed. > I haven't exposed the Elasticsearch port publicly yet, but I could possibly > do that if it helped with debugging. > > -- Eric > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Lukáš Vlček [lukas.vlcek@gmail.com](mailto:lukas.vlcek@gmail.com)wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > was it a single valued field of multi valued field? Any chance you can > > provide recreation script for this? > > > > Lukas > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Eric Mill [kprojection@gmail.com](mailto:kprojection@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > The opposite of my other problem - sometimes when I ask for highlighting > > > back from Elasticsearch, the highlight excerpt is much, much larger than my > > > requested fragment size. In one case, I got a highlight excerpt of over > > > 34,000 characters, when my requested fragment size was only 200. > > > > > > Any ideas of how I can combat this? > > > > > > -- Eric ---
**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, 4:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/very-excessive-highlight-fragments/4620/5 "2017-07-06T04:03:37Z")