This is what it does - http://linux.die.net/man/2/mlockall
Basically it prevents the memory being moved to swap.

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On 30 January 2014 00:01, briche arnaud <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following the advice on different blog post on production setup for
> Elasticsearch, I'm using -Xms256m -Xmx256 and set bootstrap.mlockall to
> True.
> My guess was that the after restart, my Elasticsearch process would use
> about 256m of ram, and that it's memory usage would remain quasi-constant
> during it's lifetime.
> But after the restart, my Elasticsearch process in using about 556m of ram.
>
> So, can someone please explain me the behaviour of mlockall ?
>
> THx in advance.
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