diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/compression/LzfCompressor.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/compression/LzfCompressor.java
index 5b8fa633693..734dd03bd67 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/compression/LzfCompressor.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/compression/LzfCompressor.java
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ public class LzfCompressor implements Compressor {
     }
 
     @Override public String decompressString(byte[] value) throws IOException {
-        CompressHolder ch = Cached.cached();
         byte[] result = decompress(value);
         return Unicode.fromBytes(result, 0, result.length);
     }