# Kafka state store issue

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-state-store-issue/7738>\
**Category:** Kafka Streams\
**Created:** [1 May 2023 11:51 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-state-store-issue/7738 "2023-05-01T11:51:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![achong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@achong](https://forum.confluent.io/u/achong)\
**Post date:** [1 May 2023 11:51 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-state-store-issue/7738/1 "2023-05-01T11:51:05Z")

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Hello people,  
I´m new with kafka streams and I´m facing a situation where state.dir (state store) space are growing to much and pods.  
How can I manage this situation and best practices?has anyone experienced same problem?how did you solve?

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**Author:** ![mjsax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/mjsax/32/3113_2.png) [@mjsax](https://forum.confluent.io/u/mjsax)\
**Post date:** [1 May 2023 15:50 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-state-store-issue/7738/2 "2023-05-01T15:50:32Z")

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Hard to say. How do you use the store? Did you estimate it’s size (cf [Capacity Planning and Sizing for Kafka Streams | Confluent Documentation](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/streams/sizing.html))

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**Author:** ![achong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@achong](https://forum.confluent.io/u/achong)\
**Post date:** [2 May 2023 18:18 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-state-store-issue/7738/3 "2023-05-02T18:18:18Z")

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Thanks @mjsax , we are using rocksdb and the microservices has 7 ktables and joins between