diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/indexer.cpp b/src/common/kiwix/indexer.cpp
index 1779923a1..d85f119c7 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/indexer.cpp
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/indexer.cpp
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
     }
     return numWords;
   }
-
+  
   /* Constructor */
   Indexer::Indexer() :
     keywordsBoostFactor(3),
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
       }
 
       /* Make a hard-disk flush every 10.000 articles */
-      if (indexedArticleCount % 5000 == 0) {
+      if (indexedArticleCount % 500 == 0) {
 	self->flush();
       }
 
diff --git a/src/common/stringTools.cpp b/src/common/stringTools.cpp
index 0df74453a..9b22e4bf2 100644
--- a/src/common/stringTools.cpp
+++ b/src/common/stringTools.cpp
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ std::string kiwix::removeAccents(const std::string &text) {
   Transliterator *removeAccentsTrans = Transliterator::createInstance("Lower; NFD; [:M:] remove; NFC", UTRANS_FORWARD, status);
   UnicodeString ustring = UnicodeString(text.c_str());
   removeAccentsTrans->transliterate(ustring);
+  delete removeAccentsTrans;
   std::string unaccentedText;
   ustring.toUTF8String(unaccentedText);
   return unaccentedText;