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When I'm trying too start the elasticsearch in my Ubuntu the startup script gives me the following error:

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: INFO: os::commit_memory(0x74800000, 201326592, 0) failed; error='Cannot allocate memory' (errno=12)
#
# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 201326592 bytes for committing reserved memory.

I try already to search by this and I couldn't find the solution for this. If I restart the machine everything work well for a day and then the elasticsearch goes down and appear this error.

I already setup the property bootstrap.mlockall: true in the elasticsearch.yml file, and also the properties in the default elasticsearch file:

ES_HEAP_SIZE=512 (I have 1GB of RAM)
MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY=unlimited

Someone know what I need to do?

Thanks

Benjamin RD
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amachado
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  • Feels like you OS is having serieus memory issues, can you check the os logs? Maybe more information there about what is happening based on other processes. Also check options in relation to the mlockall: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.4/setup-configuration.html. Are you sure you are running only one node of elasticsearch on the server? Nothing else running on the same box? – Jettro Coenradie Apr 05 '15 at 15:52

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You have configured a virtual machine with 1 GB of RAM, but elastic is trying to start with 2 GB of RAM (default for Elasticsearch version 5.X)

Either give more memory to your VM, or change Elasticsearch JVM settings /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options and lower the values of the following parameters: -Xms512m -Xmx512m

SebaGra
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Yasir
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    Here's a useful thread in-case anyone else is running it in docker https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-docker/issues/43 – timlyo Nov 23 '17 at 09:25
  • On my EC2 download, the jvm.options file is in config folder – Apurva Singh Aug 14 '19 at 16:50
  • Thanks. In a Laravel Homestead project, `composer update` was causing "PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 922755072) (tried to allocate 83886080 bytes)", and I found via `htop` that `elasticsearch` (which I never intentionally installed and have never used) was hogging RAM. I edited these params (`sudo vim /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options`) and then ran `vagrant reload --provision` Then `composer update` worked. Probably another solution could have been to increase from `memory: 2048` in my Homestead.yaml. – Ryan Mar 04 '20 at 19:08
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For the current version of elastic (5.X) you can configure jvm startup options in the jvm.options file usually located under directory /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options:

-Xms1g -Xmx1g

Hope it helps.

SebaGra
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You need to start elasticsearch by the following parameters: ./bin/elasticsearch -Xmx512m -Xms512

However it seems your memory (1G) is too low for running elasticsearch.

user3359139
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Ideally elastic search jvm needs more memory for faster processing and querying multiple shards. However, the jvm size should not be more than the system memory size. Change the memory for elastic search as per your configuration in

/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options:

-Xms4g (Minimum memory) -Xmx4g (Maximum memory)

Set it to the exactly half of the machine memory for ideal use

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In windows you can edit C:\ProgramData\Elastic\ElastiSearch\config\jvm.option file to change the size of JVM Heap (arguments: -Xms15g -Xmx15g), reducing the memory consumption.

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