Deleting snapshots taking for forever

[sukantasaha]

Sometimes we see that snapshots is in progress state forever and if we try to delete that also takes forever

"snapshots" : [ {
"snapshot" : "listening-prod2-20150319"
"state" : "IN_PROGRESS",
"start_time" : "2015-03-19T10:17:22.916Z",
"start_time_in_millis" : 1426760242916

Any idea or suggestion ?
What is the best way to delete a snapshot quickly
we are using this curl command for delete
curl -XDELETE "localhost:9200/_snapshot/aws-prod-elasticsearch-backup/listening-prod2-20150319"

[ankon]

This might be the same issue as elastic/elasticsearch#8958, #174, #150 and others.

[matteomelani]

+1.