Hi, I have an elasticsearch cluster with just one node and 1 shard on that node. I am performing bulk inserts @ 10k documents per bulk. Everything goes fine, but after a while I see that nearly 40 Gb of RAM has been used. When I started the node I just assigned it -Xmx4G -Xms4G. My server has crash…

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warkolm (Mark Walkom) November 24, 2015, 7:07am 2

That's the OS caching things, not ES.

If ES is crashing then it may be because it needs more heap

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