# Elastic node crashing due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 28, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-node-crashing-due-to-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/337034 "2023-06-28T05:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sasvmware](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sasvmware](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sasvmware)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-node-crashing-due-to-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/337034/1 "2023-06-28T05:22:56Z")
Hi Elasticsearch nodes are crashing due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space. We have 10 GB memory in each node and as per formula total memory/2 -1 we have set JVM as 4. ava.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space [2023-06-27T21:12:11,961][INFO][o.e.m.j.JvmGcMonitorService] [[xxelk-xxx-md2.xxxxxx.com](http://xxelk-xxx-md2.xxxxxx.com)] [gc][408948] overhead, spent [430ms] collecting in the last [1.3s] Dumping heap to data ... Unable to create data: File exists Terminating due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Please find out \_cluster/stats?pretty&human { "\_nodes" : { "total" : 3, "successful" : 3, "failed" : 0 }, "cluster\_name" : "xx-xxx", "cluster\_uuid" : "iT7eW-FIQbGMmlVqdKItDg", "timestamp" : 1687928792818, "status" : "green", "indices" : { "count" : 52, "shards" : { "total" : 183, "primaries" : 84, "replication" : 1.1785714285714286, "index" : { "shards" : { "min" : 2, "max" : 10, "avg" : 3.519230769230769 }, "primaries" : { "min" : 1, "max" : 5, "avg" : 1.6153846153846154 }, "replication" : { "min" : 1.0, "max" : 2.0, "avg" : 1.2115384615384615 } } }, "docs" : { "count" : 4596015, "deleted" : 2118561 }, "store" : { "size" : "32gb", "size\_in\_bytes" : 34445260661, "total\_data\_set\_size" : "32gb", "total\_data\_set\_size\_in\_bytes" : 34445260661, "reserved" : "0b", "reserved\_in\_bytes" : 0 }, "fielddata" : { "memory\_size" : "25.5kb", "memory\_size\_in\_bytes" : 26168, "evictions" : 0 }, "query\_cache" : { "memory\_size" : "14.1mb", "memory\_size\_in\_bytes" : 14883132, "total\_count" : 1524264, "hit\_count" : 119039, "miss\_count" : 1405225, "cache\_size" : 3957, "cache\_count" : 4144, "evictions" : 187 }, "completion" : { "size" : "0b", "size\_in\_bytes" : 0 }, "segments" : { "count" : 663, "memory" : "10.9mb", "memory\_in\_bytes" : 11459618, "terms\_memory" : "7.3mb", "terms\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 7720984, "stored\_fields\_memory" : "326.2kb", "stored\_fields\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 334040, "term\_vectors\_memory" : "115.2kb", "term\_vectors\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 118024, "norms\_memory" : "1.2mb", "norms\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 1288128, "points\_memory" : "0b", "points\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 0, "doc\_values\_memory" : "1.9mb", "doc\_values\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 1998442, "index\_writer\_memory" : "1.6mb", "index\_writer\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 1781972, "version\_map\_memory" : "0b", "version\_map\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 0, "fixed\_bit\_set" : "1.7mb", "fixed\_bit\_set\_memory\_in\_bytes" : 1846360, "max\_unsafe\_auto\_id\_timestamp" : 1687926871781, "file\_sizes" : { } }, "mappings" : { "field\_types" : [ { "name" : "boolean", "count" : 67, "index\_count" : 27, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "constant\_keyword", "count" : 6, "index\_count" : 2, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "date", "count" : 133, "index\_count" : 33, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "double", "count" : 2, "index\_count" : 2, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "float", "count" : 79, "index\_count" : 12, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "geo\_point", "count" : 2, "index\_count" : 2, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "half\_float", "count" : 56, "index\_count" : 14, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "integer", "count" : 155, "index\_count" : 8, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "ip", "count" : 2, "index\_count" : 2, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "keyword", "count" : 913, "index\_count" : 42, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "long", "count" : 1360, "index\_count" : 33, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "nested", "count" : 29, "index\_count" : 15, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "object", "count" : 878, "index\_count" : 28, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "scaled\_float", "count" : 1, "index\_count" : 1, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "text", "count" : 575, "index\_count" : 31, "script\_count" : 0 }, { "name" : "version", "count" : 4, "index\_count" : 4, "script\_count" : 0 } ], "runtime\_field\_types" : }, "analysis" : { "char\_filter\_types" : , "tokenizer\_types" : , "filter\_types" : [ { "name" : "stemmer", "count" : 6, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "stop", "count" : 4, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "synonym\_graph", "count" : 4, "index\_count" : 2 } ], "analyzer\_types" : [ { "name" : "custom", "count" : 6, "index\_count" : 2 } ], "built\_in\_char\_filters" : , "built\_in\_tokenizers" : [ { "name" : "keyword", "count" : 2, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "standard", "count" : 4, "index\_count" : 2 } ], "built\_in\_filters" : [ { "name" : "lowercase", "count" : 6, "index\_count" : 2 } ], "built\_in\_analyzers" : [ { "name" : "arabic", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "basque", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "brazilian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "bulgarian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "catalan", "count" : 12, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "cjk", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "czech", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "danish", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "dutch", "count" : 10, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "english", "count" : 34, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "finnish", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "french", "count" : 12, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "german", "count" : 7, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "greek", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "hindi", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "hungarian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "italian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "kuromoji", "count" : 9, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "norwegian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "polish", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "portuguese", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "romanian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "russian", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "smartcn", "count" : 12, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "spanish", "count" : 7, "index\_count" : 2 }, { "name" : "swedish", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "thai", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 }, { "name" : "turkish", "count" : 5, "index\_count" : 1 } ] }, "versions" : [ { "version" : "6.8.7", "index\_count" : 11, "primary\_shard\_count" : 39, "total\_primary\_size" : "1.1mb", "total\_primary\_bytes" : 1197211 }, { "version" : "7.17.5", "index\_count" : 41, "primary\_shard\_count" : 45, "total\_primary\_size" : "11.4gb", "total\_primary\_bytes" : 12269704622 } ] }, "nodes" : { "count" : { "total" : 3, "coordinating\_only" : 0, "data" : 3, "data\_cold" : 3, "data\_content" : 3, "data\_frozen" : 3, "data\_hot" : 3, "data\_warm" : 3, "ingest" : 3, "master" : 3, "ml" : 0, "remote\_cluster\_client" : 3, "transform" : 3, "voting\_only" : 0 }, "versions" : [ "7.17.5" ], "os" : { "available\_processors" : 12, "allocated\_processors" : 12, "names" : [ { "name" : "Linux", "count" : 3 } ], "pretty\_names" : [ { "pretty\_name" : "CentOS Linux 7 (Core)", "count" : 3 } ], "architectures" : [ { "arch" : "amd64", "count" : 3 } ], "mem" : { "total" : "29.2gb", "total\_in\_bytes" : 31451197440, "free" : "491.6mb", "free\_in\_bytes" : 515579904, "used" : "28.8gb", "used\_in\_bytes" : 30935617536, "free\_percent" : 2, "used\_percent" : 98 } }, "process" : { "cpu" : { "percent" : 9 }, "open\_file\_descriptors" : { "min" : 759, "max" : 835, "avg" : 788 } }, "jvm" : { "max\_uptime" : "2.1d", "max\_uptime\_in\_millis" : 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"name" : "analysis-kuromoji", "version" : "7.17.5", "elasticsearch\_version" : "7.17.5", "java\_version" : "1.8", "description" : "The Japanese (kuromoji) Analysis plugin integrates Lucene kuromoji analysis module into elasticsearch.", "classname" : "org.elasticsearch.plugin.analysis.kuromoji.AnalysisKuromojiPlugin", "extended\_plugins" : , "has\_native\_controller" : false, "licensed" : false, "type" : "isolated" }, { "name" : "analysis-icu", "version" : "7.17.5", "elasticsearch\_version" : "7.17.5", "java\_version" : "1.8", "description" : "The ICU Analysis plugin integrates the Lucene ICU module into Elasticsearch, adding ICU-related analysis components.", "classname" : "org.elasticsearch.plugin.analysis.icu.AnalysisICUPlugin", "extended\_plugins" : , "has\_native\_controller" : false, "licensed" : false, "type" : "isolated" }, { "name" : "analysis-ukrainian", "version" : "7.17.5", "elasticsearch\_version" : "7.17.5", "java\_version" : "1.8", "description" : "The Ukrainian Analysis 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"extended\_plugins" : , "has\_native\_controller" : false, "licensed" : false, "type" : "isolated" }, { "name" : "analysis-stempel", "version" : "7.17.5", "elasticsearch\_version" : "7.17.5", "java\_version" : "1.8", "description" : "The Stempel (Polish) Analysis plugin integrates Lucene stempel (polish) analysis module into elasticsearch.", "classname" : "org.elasticsearch.plugin.analysis.stempel.AnalysisStempelPlugin", "extended\_plugins" : , "has\_native\_controller" : false, "licensed" : false, "type" : "isolated" } ], "network\_types" : { "transport\_types" : { "netty4" : 3 }, "http\_types" : { "netty4" : 3 } }, "discovery\_types" : { "zen" : 3 }, "packaging\_types" : [ { "flavor" : "default", "type" : "tar", "count" : 3 } ], "ingest" : { "number\_of\_pipelines" : 3, "processor\_stats" : { "gsub" : { "count" : 0, "failed" : 0, "current" : 0, "time" : "0s", "time\_in\_millis" : 0 }, "rename" : { "count" : 0, "failed" : 0, "current" : 0, "time" : "0s", "time\_in\_millis" : 0 }, "script" : { "count" : 0, "failed" : 0, "current" : 0, "time" : "0s", "time\_in\_millis" : 0 }, "set" : { "count" : 0, "failed" : 0, "current" : 0, "time" : "0s", "time\_in\_millis" : 0 } } } } } ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-node-crashing-due-to-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space/337034/2 "2023-07-26T05:23:18Z")
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