# Will BigArrays grows more than configed size?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-bigarrays-grows-more-than-configed-size/63282
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 18, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-bigarrays-grows-more-than-configed-size/63282 "2016-10-18T10:56:02Z")
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### Author: ![makeyang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-bigarrays-grows-more-than-configed-size/63282/1 "2016-10-18T10:56:02Z")

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1. currently we used default value: 10% and when I heap dump one node and found out that Recycly occupied 35.38%
2. and when I checked code, there is a overSize method.

so I'd like to confirm

1. if it will grow more than configed value
2. if it will, is there anywhere to control its max size?

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### Author: ![makeyang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-bigarrays-grows-more-than-configed-size/63282/2 "2016-10-20T09:11:13Z")

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can anyone help to answer this?

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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: [July 5, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-bigarrays-grows-more-than-configed-size/63282/3 "2017-07-05T22:10:57Z")

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