Continuous garbage collection

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I'm regularly getting my Elasticsearch instance go into continuous garbage collection with log entries like these every 3 seconds:

[2017-03-29T15:23:29,060][WARN ][o.e.m.j.JvmGcMonitorService] [3BURiFV] [gc][110] overhead, spent [1.8s] collecting in the last [1.8s]

It uses a lot of CPU and becomes unresponsive when this happens. There is just a single node.

I am only trying to store some Logstash and Metricbeat data from a few hosts - I don't think this would be considered a large amount of data, though perhaps it is. The /_stats says total data is 22Gb.

I am running the JVM (32-bit) with -Xms1g -Xmx1g.

Is this simply not enough memory? What should I do?

thanks

Hamish

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1GB is a very small heap. Based on your description it sounds like you need a box with more RAM and heap.

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I don't mind if queries are slow, as I'm stashing a lot of log data but rarely accessing it.

I've deleted some old data and closed some old indices and it's running again for now.