# Baseline memory requirements **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/baseline-memory-requirements/3258 "2010-08-25T18:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrei/32/2856_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrei)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/baseline-memory-requirements/3258/1 "2010-08-25T18:15:23Z")
How much baseline memory is required by ES without considering what is used for indices? Just as a test I set min/max to 8M/32M respectively and indexed about 1000 small docs. Running top shows that resident size is about 244M. -Andrei ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/baseline-memory-requirements/3258/2 "2010-08-25T18:56:11Z")
The min/max control the size of the JVM heap. The Java process itself probably takes more, not sure about the numbers though... -shay.banon On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Andrei [andrei@zmievski.org](mailto:andrei@zmievski.org) wrote: > How much baseline memory is required by ES without considering what is > used for indices? Just as a test I set min/max to 8M/32M respectively > and indexed about 1000 small docs. Running top shows that resident > size is about 244M. > > -Andrei ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/baseline-memory-requirements/3258/3 "2017-07-06T04:20:21Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:20am UTC