You should read: http://blog.thetaphi.de/2012/07/use-lucenes-mmapdirectory-on-64bit.html
Maybe this allows you to figure out what's going on! VIRT means nothing about consumption, you should look at RES. Thanks, Uwe Am Sonntag, 29. März 2015 22:23:00 UTC+2 schrieb Yogesh: > > Hi, > > I have a single node ES setup (50GB memory, 500GB disk, 4 cores) and I run > the Twitter river on it. I've set the ES_HEAP_SIZE to 5g. However, when I > do "top", the ES process shows the VIRT memory to be around 34g. That would > be I assume the max mapped memory. The %MEM though always hovers around 10% > > However, within a few days post-reboot, the memory used keeps going up. > From 10g to almost 50g (as shown in the third line) because of which my > other dbs start behaving badly. Below is the snapshot of "top". Despite the > fact that VIRT and %MEM still hover around the same 34g and 10% > respectively. > > Please help me understand where is my memory going over time! My one guess > is that Lucene is eating it up. How do I remedy it? > > Thanks-in-advance! > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zD9y4f2Eqqk/VRhdtX2XtTI/AAAAAAAAAN8/aq8-wxm2bBg/s1600/top.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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c6e834ab-77c4-4a99-9307-b6b3baf0d232%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
