You must not be worried about the VIRT column in the top display. In the VIRT column, there is no real memory diaplsyed, but all requests for virtual address space which is not allocated is shown.
You can VIRT think of all kind of memory requests like direct buffers the Java JVM wanted to allocate in their lifetime. Only parts of this address space is active, it's the RSS column. Jörg On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > i would like to understand why my ElasticSearch Node is display me that 45 > gb of VIRT memory is used even if the system is pretty cool... > > as i see if i run some query with kiaban the load averege goes suddenly to > 4 or 8 but the physical memory still ok and neither swap is used. > > Thanks for all explantion and supports... > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1UteIHXWN_I/UwJAZgC6xMI/AAAAAAAAABQ/4YdhzQ21tbI/s1600/VIRT_Usage.png> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/462ca065-f293-4cde-8545-f98e8764d31a%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoHabxjSAbosqYV%3DjJKCD5f6eVO1Er%3DrOp381_ZhDFj3yA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
