Our Elasticsearch version is 7.10.2. It runs on Linux system. The JVM memory allocation is about 3G, and the node memory is about 8G. It is a three node cluster system. The cluster has eight shard, each of which is about 20G. In the no-load state, the virtual memory occupies 45g. Why?
Elasticsearch uses some off-heap memory in addition to the heap, but also makes use of the operating system page cache to cache frequently accessed files in memory for better performance. I suspect this is what is showing up as memory usage. This is generally not a problem as the operating system will reclaim memory from the cache if needed, but make sure you have got swap disabled.
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I queried the virtual memory usage details of elasticsearch process and found that most of them are occupied by shared, and swap has been disabled.
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