# Why no exception when circuit break is triggered? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 20, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-no-exception-when-circuit-break-is-triggered/21724 "2015-01-20T02:38:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinyuan\_Zhou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jinyuan_zhou/32/90185_2.png) [@Jinyuan\_Zhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jinyuan_Zhou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-no-exception-when-circuit-break-is-triggered/21724/1 "2015-01-20T02:38:17Z")
The following line indicates, the fieddata would exceeds configured breaker indices.breaker.fielddata.limit. which by default is 60% of heap. accroding to doc, it should throw exception. But it seems my query returned OK. I noticed large amount such quereis eventually leads to OOM error. I am using 1.4.0. Is it trying to get around this limit? [2015-01-20 02:19:38,605][WARN][indices.breaker] [\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*] [FIELDDATA] New used memory 19207691320 [17.8gb] from field [ts] would be larger than configured breaker: 19206989414 [17.8gb], breaking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6c57176b-555e-4655-9e32-6ee330ac391c%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6c57176b-555e-4655-9e32-6ee330ac391c%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-no-exception-when-circuit-break-is-triggered/21724/2 "2017-07-06T00:37:54Z")