# Bulk crash Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-crash-caused-by-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/84461
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 3, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-crash-caused-by-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/84461 "2017-05-03T20:51:03Z")
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### Author:  [@haruanm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/haruanm)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-crash-caused-by-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/84461/1 "2017-05-03T20:51:03Z")
My Elastic is crashing when I perform some bulks, the server has 15GB RAM, and the memory is set to 8000m
the object is a bit large ( 80.000 characteres ) sometimes, like this one the insert happens like 1 time each 3 seconds:
```
{
"_id": "AVvPmDt0HJ_SmC-FexOM",
"_index": "revendamais_integrator_log",
"_score": 1.0,
"_source": {
"integrator": 9999,
"request_txt": "\nasdasdasdasdadasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdaxczxcxzczxcxzc123456\n",
"response_txt": "SOAP XML with 78598 chars",
"reve_cod": 9999,
"timestamp": 1493836512,
"usua_cod": 9999
},
"_type": "integrator_log"
}
```
This is my error log
[2017-05-03T20:04:43,684][INFO][o.e.m.j.JvmGcMonitorService] [ES1] [gc][188] overhead, spent [494ms] collecting in the last [1s]
[2017-05-03T20:04:48,503][INFO][o.e.i.IndexingMemoryController] [ES1] now throttling indexing for shard [[revendamais\_integrator\_log][1]]: segment writing can't keep up
[2017-05-03T20:04:49,727][ERROR][o.e.i.e.Engine] [ES1] [revendamais\_integrator\_log][3] tragic event in index writer
org.apache.lucene.store.AlreadyClosedException: this IndexWriter is closed
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.ensureOpen(IndexWriter.java:753) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.publishFlushedSegment(IndexWriter.java:2506) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriterFlushQueue$FlushTicket.publishFlushedSegment(DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.java:198) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriterFlushQueue$FlushTicket.finishFlush(DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.java:213) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriterFlushQueue$SegmentFlushTicket.publish(DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.java:249) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.innerPurge(DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.java:116) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.forcePurge(DocumentsWriterFlushQueue.java:138) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriter.flushAllThreads(DocumentsWriter.java:663) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.getReader(IndexWriter.java:451) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.StandardDirectoryReader.doOpenFromWriter(StandardDirectoryReader.java:291) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.StandardDirectoryReader.doOpenIfChanged(StandardDirectoryReader.java:266) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.StandardDirectoryReader.doOpenIfChanged(StandardDirectoryReader.java:256) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.FilterDirectoryReader.doOpenIfChanged(FilterDirectoryReader.java:104) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader.openIfChanged(DirectoryReader.java:140) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.search.SearcherManager.refreshIfNeeded(SearcherManager.java:156) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.search.SearcherManager.refreshIfNeeded(SearcherManager.java:58) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.search.ReferenceManager.doMaybeRefresh(ReferenceManager.java:176) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.search.ReferenceManager.maybeRefreshBlocking(ReferenceManager.java:253) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.refresh(InternalEngine.java:707) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.refresh(IndexShard.java:628) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.IndexService.maybeRefreshEngine(IndexService.java:692) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.IndexService.access$400(IndexService.java:92) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.IndexService$AsyncRefreshTask.runInternal(IndexService.java:834) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.IndexService$BaseAsyncTask.run(IndexService.java:745) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:569) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [?:1.8.0\_60]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [?:1.8.0\_60]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0\_60]
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### Author:  [@haruanm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/haruanm)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-crash-caused-by-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/84461/2 "2017-05-03T20:53:31Z")
and the error continues here
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at org.apache.lucene.index.FreqProxTermsWriterPerField$FreqProxPostingsArray.(FreqProxTermsWriterPerField.java:210) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.FreqProxTermsWriterPerField$FreqProxPostingsArray.newInstance(FreqProxTermsWriterPerField.java:230) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.ParallelPostingsArray.grow(ParallelPostingsArray.java:46) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.TermsHashPerField$PostingsBytesStartArray.grow(TermsHashPerField.java:250) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefHash.add(BytesRefHash.java:271) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.TermsHashPerField.add(TermsHashPerField.java:149) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DefaultIndexingChain$PerField.invert(DefaultIndexingChain.java:766) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DefaultIndexingChain.processField(DefaultIndexingChain.java:417) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DefaultIndexingChain.processDocument(DefaultIndexingChain.java:373) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriterPerThread.updateDocument(DocumentsWriterPerThread.java:231) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriter.updateDocument(DocumentsWriter.java:478) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.updateDocument(IndexWriter.java:1575) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.addDocument(IndexWriter.java:1320) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.index(InternalEngine.java:574) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.innerIndex(InternalEngine.java:532) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.InternalEngine.index(InternalEngine.java:405) [elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.index(IndexShard.java:556) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.index(IndexShard.java:545) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.executeIndexRequestOnPrimary(TransportShardBulkAction.java:481) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.executeBulkItemRequest(TransportShardBulkAction.java:143) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportShardBulkAction.java:113) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportShardBulkAction.java:69) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryShardReference.perform(TransportReplicationAction.java:939) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryShardReference.perform(TransportReplicationAction.java:908) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.ReplicationOperation.execute(ReplicationOperation.java:113) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:322) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:264) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$1.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:888) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$1.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:885) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShardOperationsLock.acquire(IndexShardOperationsLock.java:147) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.acquirePrimaryOperationLock(IndexShard.java:1654) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction.acquirePrimaryShardReference(TransportReplicationAction.java:897) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.2.jar:5.3.2]
[2017-05-03T20:04:49,731][ERROR][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [ES1] fatal error in thread [elasticsearch[ES1][bulk][T#2]], exiting
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at org.apache.lucene.index.FreqProxTermsWriterPerField$FreqProxPostingsArray.(FreqProxTermsWriterPerField.java:210) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.FreqProxTermsWriterPerField$FreqProxPostingsArray.newInstance(FreqProxTermsWriterPerField.java:230) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.ParallelPostingsArray.grow(ParallelPostingsArray.java:46) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.TermsHashPerField$PostingsBytesStartArray.grow(TermsHashPerField.java:250) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefHash.add(BytesRefHash.java:271) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
at org.apache.lucene.index.TermsHashPerField.add(TermsHashPerField.java:149) ~[lucene-core-6.4.2.jar:6.4.2 34a975ca3d4bd7fa121340e5bcbf165929e0542f - ishan - 2017-03-01 23:23:13]
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-crash-caused-by-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/84461/3 "2017-05-03T20:56:05Z")
What version are you on?
What ES version?
What OS?
What are your settings?
How are you sending the bulk request?
How large is the bulk request?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-crash-caused-by-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/84461/4 "2017-05-31T21:00:19Z")
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