Hello, elastic! While running multiple msearch API through Java clients, I found one of the tasks took abnormally long. So I executed Task Cancel API, but it doesn't seem cleanup properly. When I check the task via Task API, it shows cancelled: true, cancellable: true, completed: false and runnin…

7.10 is pretty old and no more supported. I don't think that there is much that you can do, I would suggest that you try to restart the node where the task is running to see if this solve this issue.

Why a cancelled task is still on the list?

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DavidTurner (David Turner) June 20, 2023, 7:22am 7

I think this is a bug. Possibly it's been fixed already in the couple of years since 7.10 was released, but if you can reproduce it in a supported version then I would like to investigate further.

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Why a cancelled task is still on the list?

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