How to change Elasticsearch max memory size
elasticsearch
Solution
In ElasticSearch >= 5 the documentation has changed, which means none of the above answers worked for me.
I tried changing `ES_HEAP_SIZE` in `/etc/default/elasticsearch` and in `/etc/init.d/elasticsearch`, but when I ran `ps aux | grep elasticsearch` the output still showed:
/usr/bin/java -Xms2g -Xmx2g # aka 2G min and max ram
I had to make these changes in:
`/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options`
# Xms represents the initial size of total heap space
# Xmx represents the maximum size of total heap space
-Xms1g
-Xmx1g
# the settings shipped with ES 5 were: -Xms2g
# the settings shipped with ES 5 were: -Xmx2g
Problem
I have an Apache server with a default configuration of Elasticsearch and everything works perfectly, except that the default configuration has a max size of 1GB. I don't have such a large number of documents to store in Elasticsearch, so I want to reduce the memory. I have seen that I have to change the `-Xmx` parameter in the Java configuration, but I don't know how. I have seen I can execute this: ``` bin/ElasticSearch -Xmx=2G -Xms=2G ``` But when I have to restart Elasticsearch this will be lost. Is it possible to change max memory usage when Elasticsearch is installed as a service?