# ElasticSearch 0.19.2 heap space shortage, becoming unresponsive and not recovering or releasing memory

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**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 27, 2012, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488 "2012-04-27T10:15:38Z")
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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/1 "2012-04-27T10:15:38Z")

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Hi,

We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.

We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
Following are some example of the query we execute:  
{  
"query" : {  
"match\_all" : { }  
},  
"size" : 0,  
"facets" : {  
"tag" : {  
"terms" : {  
"field" : "nouns",  
"size" : 100  
},  
"\_cache":false  
}  
}  
}

{  
"query" : {  
"match\_all" : { }  
},  
"size" : 0,  
"facets" : {  
"tag" : {  
"terms" : {  
"field" : "phrases",  
"size" : 100  
},  
"\_cache":false  
}  
}  
}

While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
we manually kill and restart them.

ES Configuration 1:  
ElasticSearch Version 0.19.2  
2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
Max heap size 6GB per node.  
10 shards, 1 replica.

ES Configuration 2:  
ElasticSearch Version 0.19.2  
6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
Max heap size 2GB per node.  
10 shards, 5 replica.

Server Configuration:  
Windows 7 64 bit  
64 bit JVM  
8 GB pysical memory  
Dual Core processor

For both the configuration mentioned above ElasticSearch was unable to  
respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.

We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
if required.

The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
(keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
customized standard analyzer)

{  
"properties": {  
"adjectives": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "stop2"  
},  
"alertStatus": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"assignedByUserId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"assignedByUserName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"assignedToDepartmentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"assignedToDepartmentName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"assignedToUserId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"assignedToUserName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"authorJsonMetadata": {  
"properties": {  
"favourites": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"followers": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"following": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"likes": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"listed": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"subscribers": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"subscription": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"uploads": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"views": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"authorKloutDetails": {  
"dynamic": "true",  
"properties": {  
"amplificationScore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"description": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"influencees": {  
"dynamic": "true",  
"properties": {  
"kscore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitter\_screen\_name": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"influencers": {  
"dynamic": "true",  
"properties": {  
"kscore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitter\_screen\_name": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"kloutClass": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutClassDescription": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutScore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutScoreDescription": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutTopic": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"slope": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"trueReach": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitterId": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitterScreenName": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"author\_media": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"brandTerms": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"calculatedSentimentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"calculatedSentimentName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"categories": {  
"properties": {  
"category": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"categoryWords": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"score": {  
"type": "double"  
}  
}  
},  
"commentCount": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentAuthorId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentAuthorName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"contentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentJsonMetadata": {  
"properties": {  
"comment Count": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"dislikes": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"favourites": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"likes": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"retweet Count": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"views": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"contentPublishedTime": {  
"type": "date",  
"index": "analyzed",  
"format": "dateOptionalTime"  
},  
"contentTextFull": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard1"  
},  
"contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard1"  
},  
"contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard1"  
},  
"contentType": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"contentUrlId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentUrlPath": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
"type": "date",  
"index": "analyzed",  
"format": "dateOptionalTime"  
},  
"ctmId": {  
"type": "long"  
},  
"domainName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"domainUrl": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"domain\_media": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"findings": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"geographyId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"geographyName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"kloutScore": {  
"type": "object"  
},  
"languageId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"languageName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"listListeningObjectiveName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"mediaSourceIconPath": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"mediaSourceId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"mediaSourceName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"mediaSourceTypeId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"mediaSourceTypeName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"notesCount": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"nouns": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "stop2"  
},  
"opinionWords": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"phrases": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"profileId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"profileName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"topicId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"topicName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"userSentimentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"userSentimentName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"verbs": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "stop2"  
}  
}  
}

A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:

{  
"contentType": "comment",  
"topicId": 9,  
"mediaSourceId": 3,  
"contentId": 34834,  
"ctmId": 73322,  
"contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\nhttp://www.mercurynews.com/  
business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately, we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
"contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
"contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
"contentJsonMetadata": null,  
"commentCount": 117,  
"contentUrlId": 13535,  
"contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
settlement-renegade/",  
"domainUrl": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com](http://www.bubbleinfo.com)",  
"domainName": null,  
"contentAuthorId": 15614,  
"contentAuthorName": "Hankster",  
"authorJsonMetadata": null,  
"authorKloutDetails": null,  
"mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog",  
"mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif",  
"mediaSourceTypeId": 1,  
"mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog",  
"geographyId": 0,  
"geographyName": "Unknown",  
"languageId": 1,  
"languageName": "English",  
"topicName": "Bank of America",  
"profileId": 3,  
"profileName": "USAA\_Competition1",  
"contentPublishedTime": 1328798840000,  
"contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000,  
"calculatedSentimentId": 4,  
"calculatedSentimentName": "POS",  
"userSentimentId": 0,  
"userSentimentName": null,  
"listListeningObjectiveName": [  
"Untagged LO"  
],  
"alertStatus": "assigned",  
"assignedToUserId": 2,  
"assignedToUserName": null,  
"assignedByUserId": 1,  
"assignedByUserName": null,  
"assignedToDepartmentId": 0,  
"assignedToDepartmentName": null,  
"notesCount": 0,  
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"bank",  
"banks",  
"Bloomberg",  
"buddy",  
"Corelogic",  
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"foreclosure",  
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"headwinds",  
"home",  
"house",  
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"pain",  
"payment",  
"percent",  
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"REOs",  
"result",  
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"Santa",  
"SD",  
"settlement",  
"shadow",  
"term",  
"turn",  
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],  
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"hovering",  
"increase",  
"makes",  
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"published",  
"result",  
"stated",  
"staying",  
"suggests"  
],  
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"clear",  
"finally",  
"good",  
"high",  
"higher",  
"instead",  
"large",  
"last",  
"likely",  
"longer",  
"low",  
"nationally",  
"next",  
"not",  
"positive",  
"quickly",  
"short",  
"so-called",  
"underwater",  
"Unfortunately"  
],  
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"25 percent increase",  
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"avoid the headwinds",  
"bank settlement",  
"banks holding off foreclosures",  
"banks more money",  
"Bloomberg and RealtyTrac",  
"bottom line",  
"bought in Santa",  
"bought in Santa Luz",  
"clear the so-called shadow",  
"completed foreclosures",  
"estimates from Realtytrac",  
"foreclosure numbers",  
"foreclosure numbers in 2012",  
"foreclosure pain",  
"foreclosures until settlement",  
"good news",  
"happen this year",  
"happen this year --",  
"happened last year",  
"help the housing",  
"help the housing market",  
"higher foreclosure",  
"higher foreclosure numbers",  
"holding off foreclosures",  
"housing market",  
"increase from 2011",  
"increase The bottom line",  
"instead happen this year",  
"large numbers",  
"last market",  
"last year",  
"longer term",  
"longer term the bank",  
"low numbers",  
"Luz in 2006",  
"makes his payment",  
"million completed foreclosures",  
"mm underwater home",  
"month by his bank",  
"nationally published by Corelogic",  
"net the banks",  
"not avoid the headwinds",  
"numbers in 2012",  
"percent increase",  
"percent increase from 2011",  
"published by Corelogic",  
"Realtytrac and Zillow",  
"result in higher foreclosure",  
"result in more foreclosure",  
"result of banks",  
"sales net",  
"sales net the banks",  
"Santa Luz",  
"Santa Luz in 2006",  
"shadow inventory",  
"short sales",  
"short sales net",  
"short term",  
"so-called shadow",  
"so-called shadow inventory",  
"staying in the house",  
"suggests that short sales",  
"term the bank",  
"term the bank settlement",  
"turn help the housing",  
"underwater home",  
"underwater in 92127",  
"underwater in 92130",  
"underwater in SD",  
"year --"  
],  
"author\_media": "15614 ~~~Hankster~~~ 1~~~Blog",  
"domain\_media": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com](http://www.bubbleinfo.com) ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog",  
"categories": [  
{  
"category": "post closing",  
"categoryWords": [  
"foreclosure",  
"foreclosure"  
],  
"score": "2.0"  
},  
{  
"category": "pre buy research",  
"categoryWords": [  
"term",  
"term"  
],  
"score": "2.0"  
}  
],  
"opinionWords": [  
"positive",  
"good news",  
"expect",  
"unfortunately"  
],  
"brandTerms": [],  
"findings": []  
}

---

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### Author: ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/2 "2012-04-27T10:22:04Z")

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Hello,

Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
example query ?

Regards,  
Rafał

W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
napisał:

> Hi,
> 
> We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> 
> We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : { }  
> },  
> "size" : 0,  
> "facets" : {  
> "tag" : {  
> "terms" : {  
> "field" : "nouns",  
> "size" : 100  
> },  
> "\_cache":false  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : { }  
> },  
> "size" : 0,  
> "facets" : {  
> "tag" : {  
> "terms" : {  
> "field" : "phrases",  
> "size" : 100  
> },  
> "\_cache":false  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> we manually kill and restart them.
> 
> ES Configuration 1:  
> Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> 10 shards, 1 replica.
> 
> ES Configuration 2:  
> Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> 10 shards, 5 replica.
> 
> Server Configuration:  
> Windows 7 64 bit  
> 64 bit JVM  
> 8 GB pysical memory  
> Dual Core processor
> 
> For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> 
> We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> if required.
> 
> The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> customized standard analyzer)
> 
> {  
> "properties": {  
> "adjectives": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> },  
> "alertStatus": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedByUserId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedByUserName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedToUserId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedToUserName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> "properties": {  
> "favourites": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "followers": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "following": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "likes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "listed": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "subscribers": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "subscription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "uploads": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "views": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "authorKloutDetails": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "amplificationScore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "description": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "influencees": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "kscore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "influencers": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "kscore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "kloutClass": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutClassDescription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutScore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutTopic": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "slope": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "trueReach": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitterId": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitterScreenName": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "author\_media": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "brandTerms": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "categories": {  
> "properties": {  
> "category": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "categoryWords": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "score": {  
> "type": "double"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "commentCount": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentAuthorId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentAuthorName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> "properties": {  
> "comment Count": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "dislikes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "favourites": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "likes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "retweet Count": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "views": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "contentPublishedTime": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "index": "analyzed",  
> "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> },  
> "contentTextFull": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentType": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentUrlId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentUrlPath": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "index": "analyzed",  
> "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> },  
> "ctmId": {  
> "type": "long"  
> },  
> "domainName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "domainUrl": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "domain\_media": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "findings": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "geographyId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "geographyName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "kloutScore": {  
> "type": "object"  
> },  
> "languageId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "languageName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "notesCount": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "nouns": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> },  
> "opinionWords": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "phrases": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "profileId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "profileName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "topicId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "topicName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "userSentimentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "userSentimentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "verbs": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> 
> {  
> "contentType": "comment",  
> "topicId": 9,  
> "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> "contentId": 34834,  
> "ctmId": 73322,  
> "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\n[http://www.mercurynews.com/](http://www.mercurynews.com/)  
> business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
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> published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
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> foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
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> "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
> settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)",
> 
> ```
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> "contentAuthorId": 15614, 
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> ```
> 
> }

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/3 "2012-04-27T10:42:35Z")

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Hi,

Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
anything to monitor explicitly?  
I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
there in the cluster\_state details.

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> example query ?
> 
> Regards,  
> Rafał
> 
> W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> napisał:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > 
> > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "match\_all" : { }  
> > },  
> > "size" : 0,  
> > "facets" : {  
> > "tag" : {  
> > "terms" : {  
> > "field" : "nouns",  
> > "size" : 100  
> > },  
> > "\_cache":false  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "match\_all" : { }  
> > },  
> > "size" : 0,  
> > "facets" : {  
> > "tag" : {  
> > "terms" : {  
> > "field" : "phrases",  
> > "size" : 100  
> > },  
> > "\_cache":false  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > we manually kill and restart them.
> > 
> > ES Configuration 1:  
> > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > 
> > ES Configuration 2:  
> > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > 
> > Server Configuration:  
> > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > 64 bit JVM  
> > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > Dual Core processor
> > 
> > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > 
> > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > if required.
> > 
> > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > customized standard analyzer)
> > 
> > {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "adjectives": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > },  
> > "alertStatus": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "favourites": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "followers": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "following": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "likes": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "listed": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "subscribers": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "subscription": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "uploads": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "views": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > "dynamic": "true",  
> > "properties": {  
> > "amplificationScore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "description": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "influencees": {  
> > "dynamic": "true",  
> > "properties": {  
> > "kscore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "influencers": {  
> > "dynamic": "true",  
> > "properties": {  
> > "kscore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "kloutClass": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutScore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutTopic": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "slope": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "trueReach": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitterId": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "author\_media": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "brandTerms": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "categories": {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "category": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "categoryWords": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "score": {  
> > "type": "double"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "commentCount": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentAuthorId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentAuthorName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "contentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "comment Count": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "dislikes": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "favourites": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "likes": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "retweet Count": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "views": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "contentPublishedTime": {  
> > "type": "date",  
> > "index": "analyzed",  
> > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > },  
> > "contentTextFull": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > },  
> > "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > },  
> > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > },  
> > "contentType": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "contentUrlId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentUrlPath": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> > "type": "date",  
> > "index": "analyzed",  
> > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > },  
> > "ctmId": {  
> > "type": "long"  
> > },  
> > "domainName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "domainUrl": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "domain\_media": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "findings": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "geographyId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "geographyName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "kloutScore": {  
> > "type": "object"  
> > },  
> > "languageId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "languageName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "notesCount": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "nouns": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > },  
> > "opinionWords": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "phrases": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "profileId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "profileName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "topicId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "topicName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "userSentimentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "userSentimentName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "verbs": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> > 
> > {  
> > "contentType": "comment",  
> > "topicId": 9,  
> > "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> > "contentId": 34834,  
> > "ctmId": 73322,  
> > "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> > Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> > settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> > more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> > that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> > will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> > 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> > million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> > increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> > short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> > increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> > settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> > inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> > out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> > asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> > underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> > Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> > 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> > we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> > The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\n[http://www.mercurynews.com/](http://www.mercurynews.com/)  
> > business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> > we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> > "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> > published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> > until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> > result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> > foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> > "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> > "commentCount": 117,  
> > "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> > "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
> > settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)",
> > 
> > ```
> > "domainUrl": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com", 
> > "domainName": null, 
> > "contentAuthorId": 15614, 
> > "contentAuthorName": "Hankster", 
> > "authorJsonMetadata": null, 
> > "authorKloutDetails": null, 
> > "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog", 
> > "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif", 
> > "mediaSourceTypeId": 1, 
> > "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog", 
> > "geographyId": 0, 
> > "geographyName": "Unknown", 
> > "languageId": 1, 
> > "languageName": "English", 
> > "topicName": "Bank of America", 
> > "profileId": 3, 
> > "profileName": "USAA_Competition1", 
> > "contentPublishedTime": 1328798840000, 
> > "contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000, 
> > "calculatedSentimentId": 4, 
> > "calculatedSentimentName": "POS", 
> > "userSentimentId": 0, 
> > "userSentimentName": null, 
> > "listListeningObjectiveName": [ 
> > "Untagged LO" 
> > ], 
> > "alertStatus": "assigned", 
> > "assignedToUserId": 2, 
> > "assignedToUserName": null, 
> > "assignedByUserId": 1, 
> > "assignedByUserName": null, 
> > "assignedToDepartmentId": 0, 
> > "assignedToDepartmentName": null, 
> > "notesCount": 0, 
> > "nouns": [ 
> > "bank", 
> > "banks", 
> > "Bloomberg", 
> > "buddy", 
> > "Corelogic", 
> > "data", 
> > "estimates", 
> > "foreclosure", 
> > "foreclosures", 
> > "headwinds", 
> > "home", 
> > "house", 
> > "housing", 
> > "increase", 
> > "inventory", 
> > "line", 
> > "Luz", 
> > "market", 
> > "mm", 
> > "money", 
> > "month", 
> > "net", 
> > "news", 
> > "numbers", 
> > "pain", 
> > "payment", 
> > "percent", 
> > "Realtytrac", 
> > "RealtyTrac", 
> > "REOs", 
> > "result", 
> > "sales", 
> > "Santa", 
> > "SD", 
> > "settlement", 
> > "shadow", 
> > "term", 
> > "turn", 
> > "year", 
> > "Zillow" 
> > ], 
> > "verbs": [ 
> > "asked", 
> > "avoid", 
> > "bought", 
> > "completed", 
> > "expect", 
> > "expected", 
> > "get", 
> > "happen", 
> > "happened", 
> > "help", 
> > "hit", 
> > "holding", 
> > "hovering", 
> > "increase", 
> > "makes", 
> > "plan", 
> > "published", 
> > "result", 
> > "stated", 
> > "staying", 
> > "suggests" 
> > ], 
> > "adjectives": [ 
> > "bottom", 
> > "clear", 
> > "finally", 
> > "good", 
> > "high", 
> > "higher", 
> > "instead", 
> > "large", 
> > "last", 
> > "likely", 
> > "longer", 
> > "low", 
> > "nationally", 
> > "next", 
> > "not", 
> > "positive", 
> > "quickly", 
> > "short", 
> > "so-called", 
> > "underwater", 
> > "Unfortunately" 
> > ], 
> > "phrases": [ 
> > "2012 than 2011", 
> > "25 percent", 
> > "25 percent increase", 
> > "2700 underwater in 92130", 
> > "3800 underwater in 92127", 
> > "92130 The good news", 
> > "asked every month", 
> > "avoid the headwinds", 
> > "bank settlement", 
> > "banks holding off foreclosures", 
> > "banks more money", 
> > "Bloomberg and RealtyTrac", 
> > "bottom line", 
> > "bought in Santa", 
> > "bought in Santa Luz", 
> > "clear the so-called shadow", 
> > "completed foreclosures", 
> > "estimates from Realtytrac", 
> > "foreclosure numbers", 
> > "foreclosure numbers in 2012", 
> > "foreclosure pain", 
> > "foreclosures until settlement", 
> > "good news", 
> > "happen this year", 
> > "happen this year --", 
> > "happened last year", 
> > "help the housing", 
> > "help the housing market", 
> > "higher foreclosure", 
> > "higher foreclosure numbers", 
> > "holding off foreclosures", 
> > "housing market", 
> > "increase from 2011", 
> > "increase The bottom line", 
> > "instead happen this year", 
> > "large numbers", 
> > "last market", 
> > "last year", 
> > "longer term", 
> > "longer term the bank", 
> > "low numbers", 
> > "Luz in 2006", 
> > "makes his payment", 
> > "million completed foreclosures", 
> > "mm underwater home", 
> > "month by his bank", 
> > "nationally published by Corelogic", 
> > "net the banks", 
> > "not avoid the headwinds", 
> > "numbers in 2012", 
> > "percent increase", 
> > "percent increase from 2011", 
> > "published by Corelogic", 
> > "Realtytrac and Zillow", 
> > "result in higher foreclosure", 
> > "result in more foreclosure", 
> > "result of banks", 
> > "sales net", 
> > "sales net the banks", 
> > "Santa Luz", 
> > "Santa Luz in 2006", 
> > "shadow inventory", 
> > "short sales", 
> > "short sales net", 
> > "short term", 
> > "so-called shadow", 
> > "so-called shadow inventory", 
> > "staying in the house", 
> > "suggests that short sales", 
> > "term the bank", 
> > "term the bank settlement", 
> > "turn help the housing", 
> > "underwater home", 
> > "underwater in 92127", 
> > "underwater in 92130", 
> > "underwater in SD", 
> > "year --" 
> > ], 
> > "author_media": "15614 ~~~Hankster~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > "domain_media": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > "categories": [ 
> > { 
> > "category": "post closing", 
> > "categoryWords": [ 
> > "foreclosure", 
> > "foreclosure" 
> > ], 
> > "score": "2.0" 
> > }, 
> > { 
> > "category": "pre buy research", 
> > "categoryWords": [ 
> > "term", 
> > "term" 
> > ], 
> > "score": "2.0" 
> > } 
> > ], 
> > "opinionWords": [ 
> > "positive", 
> > "good news", 
> > "expect", 
> > "unfortunately" 
> > ], 
> > "brandTerms": [], 
> > "findings": [] 
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > }

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### Author: ![jagdeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jagdeep](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagdeep)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/4 "2012-04-27T10:49:17Z")

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My main concern is recovery failure. Heap space error is expected if  
are trying to load too many documents in memory but elasticsearch  
nodes should recover after this error. I suppose, after this stage  
even flush, refresh or optimize will also not work.

Regards

On Apr 27, 3:42 pm, Sujoy Sett [sujoys...@gmail.com](mailto:sujoys...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> anything to monitor explicitly?  
> I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > example query ?
> 
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał
> 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:
> 
> > > Hi,
> 
> > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> 
> > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> 
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> 
> > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > we manually kill and restart them.
> 
> > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> 
> > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> 
> > > Server Configuration:  
> > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > Dual Core processor
> 
> > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> 
> > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > if required.
> 
> > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > customized standard analyzer)
> 
> > > {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "adjectives": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "followers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "following": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "listed": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscribers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "uploads": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "description": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "influencees": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "influencers": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "slope": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "trueReach": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterId": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "author\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "brandTerms": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categories": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "category": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categoryWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "score": {  
> > > "type":
> 
> ...
> 
> read more »

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### Author: ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/5 "2012-04-27T10:50:59Z")

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Hello!

Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run the  
following command:

curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'

In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field data  
cache, something like the following:

```
"cache" : {
      "field_evictions" : 0,
      "field_size" : "0b",
      "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
      "filter_count" : 1,
      "filter_evictions" : 0,
      "filter_size" : "32b",
      "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
    }

```

With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
consumes.

--  
Regards,  
Rafał Kuć  
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Elasticsearch

W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
napisał:

> Hi,
> 
> Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> anything to monitor explicitly?  
> I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > example query ?
> > 
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał
> > 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > 
> > > Server Configuration:  
> > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > Dual Core processor
> > > 
> > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > 
> > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > if required.
> > > 
> > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "adjectives": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "followers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "following": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "listed": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscribers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "uploads": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "description": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "influencees": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "influencers": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "slope": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "trueReach": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterId": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "author\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "brandTerms": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categories": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "category": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categoryWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "score": {  
> > > "type": "double"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "commentCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "comment Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "dislikes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "retweet Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "contentPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFull": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentType": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "ctmId": {  
> > > "type": "long"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainUrl": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domain\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "findings": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "object"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "notesCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "nouns": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "opinionWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "phrases": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "verbs": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "contentType": "comment",  
> > > "topicId": 9,  
> > > "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> > > "contentId": 34834,  
> > > "ctmId": 73322,  
> > > "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> > > Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> > > settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> > > more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> > > that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> > > will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> > > 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> > > million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> > > increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> > > short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> > > increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> > > settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> > > inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> > > out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> > > asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> > > underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> > > Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> > > 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> > > we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> > > The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\n[http://www.mercurynews.com/](http://www.mercurynews.com/)  
> > > business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> > > we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> > > published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> > > until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> > > result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> > > foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> > > "commentCount": 117,  
> > > "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> > > "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
> > > settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)",
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > "domainUrl": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com", 
> > > "domainName": null, 
> > > "contentAuthorId": 15614, 
> > > "contentAuthorName": "Hankster", 
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": null, 
> > > "authorKloutDetails": null, 
> > > "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog", 
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif", 
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": 1, 
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog", 
> > > "geographyId": 0, 
> > > "geographyName": "Unknown", 
> > > "languageId": 1, 
> > > "languageName": "English", 
> > > "topicName": "Bank of America", 
> > > "profileId": 3, 
> > > "profileName": "USAA_Competition1", 
> > > "contentPublishedTime": 1328798840000, 
> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000, 
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": 4, 
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": "POS", 
> > > "userSentimentId": 0, 
> > > "userSentimentName": null, 
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": [ 
> > > "Untagged LO" 
> > > ], 
> > > "alertStatus": "assigned", 
> > > "assignedToUserId": 2, 
> > > "assignedToUserName": null, 
> > > "assignedByUserId": 1, 
> > > "assignedByUserName": null, 
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": 0, 
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": null, 
> > > "notesCount": 0, 
> > > "nouns": [ 
> > > "bank", 
> > > "banks", 
> > > "Bloomberg", 
> > > "buddy", 
> > > "Corelogic", 
> > > "data", 
> > > "estimates", 
> > > "foreclosure", 
> > > "foreclosures", 
> > > "headwinds", 
> > > "home", 
> > > "house", 
> > > "housing", 
> > > "increase", 
> > > "inventory", 
> > > "line", 
> > > "Luz", 
> > > "market", 
> > > "mm", 
> > > "money", 
> > > "month", 
> > > "net", 
> > > "news", 
> > > "numbers", 
> > > "pain", 
> > > "payment", 
> > > "percent", 
> > > "Realtytrac", 
> > > "RealtyTrac", 
> > > "REOs", 
> > > "result", 
> > > "sales", 
> > > "Santa", 
> > > "SD", 
> > > "settlement", 
> > > "shadow", 
> > > "term", 
> > > "turn", 
> > > "year", 
> > > "Zillow" 
> > > ], 
> > > "verbs": [ 
> > > "asked", 
> > > "avoid", 
> > > "bought", 
> > > "completed", 
> > > "expect", 
> > > "expected", 
> > > "get", 
> > > "happen", 
> > > "happened", 
> > > "help", 
> > > "hit", 
> > > "holding", 
> > > "hovering", 
> > > "increase", 
> > > "makes", 
> > > "plan", 
> > > "published", 
> > > "result", 
> > > "stated", 
> > > "staying", 
> > > "suggests" 
> > > ], 
> > > "adjectives": [ 
> > > "bottom", 
> > > "clear", 
> > > "finally", 
> > > "good", 
> > > "high", 
> > > "higher", 
> > > "instead", 
> > > "large", 
> > > "last", 
> > > "likely", 
> > > "longer", 
> > > "low", 
> > > "nationally", 
> > > "next", 
> > > "not", 
> > > "positive", 
> > > "quickly", 
> > > "short", 
> > > "so-called", 
> > > "underwater", 
> > > "Unfortunately" 
> > > ], 
> > > "phrases": [ 
> > > "2012 than 2011", 
> > > "25 percent", 
> > > "25 percent increase", 
> > > "2700 underwater in 92130", 
> > > "3800 underwater in 92127", 
> > > "92130 The good news", 
> > > "asked every month", 
> > > "avoid the headwinds", 
> > > "bank settlement", 
> > > "banks holding off foreclosures", 
> > > "banks more money", 
> > > "Bloomberg and RealtyTrac", 
> > > "bottom line", 
> > > "bought in Santa", 
> > > "bought in Santa Luz", 
> > > "clear the so-called shadow", 
> > > "completed foreclosures", 
> > > "estimates from Realtytrac", 
> > > "foreclosure numbers", 
> > > "foreclosure numbers in 2012", 
> > > "foreclosure pain", 
> > > "foreclosures until settlement", 
> > > "good news", 
> > > "happen this year", 
> > > "happen this year --", 
> > > "happened last year", 
> > > "help the housing", 
> > > "help the housing market", 
> > > "higher foreclosure", 
> > > "higher foreclosure numbers", 
> > > "holding off foreclosures", 
> > > "housing market", 
> > > "increase from 2011", 
> > > "increase The bottom line", 
> > > "instead happen this year", 
> > > "large numbers", 
> > > "last market", 
> > > "last year", 
> > > "longer term", 
> > > "longer term the bank", 
> > > "low numbers", 
> > > "Luz in 2006", 
> > > "makes his payment", 
> > > "million completed foreclosures", 
> > > "mm underwater home", 
> > > "month by his bank", 
> > > "nationally published by Corelogic", 
> > > "net the banks", 
> > > "not avoid the headwinds", 
> > > "numbers in 2012", 
> > > "percent increase", 
> > > "percent increase from 2011", 
> > > "published by Corelogic", 
> > > "Realtytrac and Zillow", 
> > > "result in higher foreclosure", 
> > > "result in more foreclosure", 
> > > "result of banks", 
> > > "sales net", 
> > > "sales net the banks", 
> > > "Santa Luz", 
> > > "Santa Luz in 2006", 
> > > "shadow inventory", 
> > > "short sales", 
> > > "short sales net", 
> > > "short term", 
> > > "so-called shadow", 
> > > "so-called shadow inventory", 
> > > "staying in the house", 
> > > "suggests that short sales", 
> > > "term the bank", 
> > > "term the bank settlement", 
> > > "turn help the housing", 
> > > "underwater home", 
> > > "underwater in 92127", 
> > > "underwater in 92130", 
> > > "underwater in SD", 
> > > "year --" 
> > > ], 
> > > "author_media": "15614 ~~~Hankster~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > > "domain_media": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > > "categories": [ 
> > > { 
> > > "category": "post closing", 
> > > "categoryWords": [ 
> > > "foreclosure", 
> > > "foreclosure" 
> > > ], 
> > > "score": "2.0" 
> > > }, 
> > > { 
> > > "category": "pre buy research", 
> > > "categoryWords": [ 
> > > "term", 
> > > "term" 
> > > ], 
> > > "score": "2.0" 
> > > } 
> > > ], 
> > > "opinionWords": [ 
> > > "positive", 
> > > "good news", 
> > > "expect", 
> > > "unfortunately" 
> > > ], 
> > > "brandTerms": [], 
> > > "findings": [] 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > }

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/6 "2012-04-27T11:14:19Z")

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Hi,

We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We  
have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What  
does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings  
or elsewhere.

_Initial State_  
{  
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",  
"nodes" : {  
"zM7byv\_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {  
"name" : "es\_node\_102",  
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_After three requests_  
_ES down with heap space error._  
_No response._

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run  
> the following command:
> 
> curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'
> 
> In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field  
> data cache, something like the following:
> 
> ```
> "cache" : {
> "field_evictions" : 0,
> "field_size" : "0b",
> "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
> "filter_count" : 1,
> "filter_evictions" : 0,
> "filter_size" : "32b",
> "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
> consumes.
> 
> --  
> Regards,  
> Rafał Kuć  
> Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Elasticsearch
> 
> W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> napisał:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> > state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > there in the cluster\_state details.
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > example query ?
> > > 
> > > Regards,  
> > > Rafał
> > > 
> > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > napisał:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > > 
> > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > {  
> > > > "query" : {  
> > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > },  
> > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > {  
> > > > "query" : {  
> > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > },  
> > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > > 
> > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > > 
> > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > > 
> > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > Dual Core processor
> > > > 
> > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > > 
> > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > > if required.
> > > > 
> > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > > 
> > > > {  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "followers": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "following": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "likes": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "listed": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "subscription": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "uploads": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "views": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/7 "2012-04-27T11:19:24Z")

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Also

following message has been printed  
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory  
failure  
along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.

Any help from that?

Thanks and regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We  
> have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What  
> does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings  
> or elsewhere.
> 
> _Initial State_  
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> 
> _After three requests_  
> _ES down with heap space error._  
> _No response._
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run  
> > the following command:
> > 
> > curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'
> > 
> > In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field  
> > data cache, something like the following:
> > 
> > ```
> > "cache" : {
> > "field_evictions" : 0,
> > "field_size" : "0b",
> > "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
> > "filter_count" : 1,
> > "filter_evictions" : 0,
> > "filter_size" : "32b",
> > "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
> > }
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
> > consumes.
> > 
> > --  
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał Kuć  
> > Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch -  
> > Elasticsearch
> > 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to  
> > > set anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor  
> > > cluster state and health, I didn't find anything  
> > > like index.cache.field.max\_size there in the cluster\_state details.
> > > 
> > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > > example query ?
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,  
> > > > Rafał
> > > > 
> > > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > > napisał:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }
> > > > > 
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }
> > > > > 
> > > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > > Dual Core processor
> > > > > 
> > > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > > > if required.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > > > 
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "followers": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "following": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "likes": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "listed": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "subscription": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "uploads": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "views": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "description": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "influencees": {  
> > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "influencers": {  
> > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "kloutClass": {  
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### Author: ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/8 "2012-04-27T11:32:17Z")

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Hello!

Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after that your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is that field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to do one of the following changes to your ElasticSearch configuration:

1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by adding the following line to the configuration:

index.cache.field.type: soft

1. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of entries. You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per segment, not per index. To set that, add the following line to the configuration:

index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000

Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will be good for your deployment.

_--_

Regards,

Rafał Kuć

Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) _:: Solr - Lucene - Nutch_

Also

following message has been printed

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory failure

along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.

Any help from that?

Thanks and regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:

Hi,

We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings or elsewhere.

**Initial State**

{

"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",

"nodes" : {

```
"zM7byv_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {

  "name" : "es_node_102",

  "transport_address" : "inet[/<a style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt;" href="http://172.29.177.102:9300">172.29.177.102:9300</a>]",

  "hostname" : "01hw445748",

  "attributes" : {

    "tag" : "es_node_102"

  },

  "indices" : {

    "store" : {

      "size" : "503.1mb",

      "size_in_bytes" : 527622079

    },

    "docs" : {

      "count" : 74250,

      "deleted" : 2705

    },

    "indexing" : {

      "index_total" : 0,

      "index_time" : "0s",

      "index_time_in_millis" : 0,

      "index_current" : 0,

      "delete_total" : 0,

      "delete_time" : "0s",

      "delete_time_in_millis" : 0,

      "delete_current" : 0

    },

    "get" : {

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      "time" : "0s",

      "time_in_millis" : 0,

      "exists_total" : 0,

      "exists_time" : "0s",

      "exists_time_in_millis" : 0,

      "missing_total" : 0,

      "missing_time" : "0s",

      "missing_time_in_millis" : 0,

      "current" : 0

    },

    "search" : {

      "query_total" : 0,

      "query_time" : "0s",

      "query_time_in_millis" : 0,

      "query_current" : 0,

      "fetch_total" : 0,

      "fetch_time" : "0s",

      "fetch_time_in_millis" : 0,

      "fetch_current" : 0

    },

    "cache" : {

      "field_evictions" : 0,

      "field_size" : "0b",

      "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,

      "filter_count" : 0,

      "filter_evictions" : 0,

      "filter_size" : "0b",

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},

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  "transport_address" : "inet[/<a style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt;" href="http://172.29.181.67:9300">172.29.181.67:9300</a>]",

  "hostname" : "01hw400248",

  "attributes" : {

    "tag" : "es_node_67"

  },

  "indices" : {

    "store" : {

      "size" : "8gb",

      "size_in_bytes" : 8615814550

    },

    "docs" : {

      "count" : 1121886,

      "deleted" : 65007

    },

    "indexing" : {

      "index_total" : 0,

      "index_time" : "0s",

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}

```

}

}

**After hitting query**

{

```
"query" : {

    "match_all" : { }

},

"size" : 0,

"facets" : {

    "tag" : {

        "terms" : {

            "field" : "phrases",

            "size" : 100

        },

        "_cache":false

    }

}

```

}

**After single request**

{

"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",

"nodes" : {

```
"zM7byv_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {

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  "transport_address" : "inet[/<a style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt;" href="http://172.29.177.102:9300">172.29.177.102:9300</a>]",

  "hostname" : "01hw445748",

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    },

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      "current" : 0

    },

    "search" : {

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    },

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      "field_size_in_bytes" : 3834410088,

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  "hostname" : "01hw400248",

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    },

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    }

  }

}

```

}

}

**After two requests**

{

"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",

"nodes" : {

```
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  "transport_address" : "inet[/<a style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt;" href="http://172.29.177.102:9300">172.29.177.102:9300</a>]",

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    },

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}

```

}

}

**After three requests**

ES down with heap space error.

No response.

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:

Hello!

Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run the following command:

curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'

In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field data cache, something like the following:

```
"cache" : {

      "field_evictions" : 0,

      "field_size" : "0b",

      "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,

      "filter_count" : 1,

      "filter_evictions" : 0,

      "filter_size" : "32b",

      "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32

    }

```

With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache consumes.

--

Regards,

Rafał Kuć

Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - ElasticSearch

W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett napisał:

Hi,

Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set anything to monitor explicitly?

I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size there in the cluster\_state details.

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:

Hello,

Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the example query ?

Regards,

Rafał

W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett napisał:

Hi,

We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data

from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to

500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in

Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all

shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the

total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should

reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are

generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.

We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization

purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.

Following are some example of the query we execute:

{

```
"query" : { 

    "match_all" : { } 

}, 

"size" : 0, 

"facets" : { 

    "tag" : { 

        "terms" : { 

            "field" : "nouns", 

            "size" : 100 

        }, 

        "_cache":false 

    } 

} 

```

}

{

```
"query" : { 

    "match_all" : { } 

}, 

"size" : 0, 

"facets" : { 

    "tag" : { 

        "terms" : { 

            "field" : "phrases", 

            "size" : 100 

        }, 

        "_cache":false 

    } 

} 

```

}

While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,

and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes

do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof

file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in

task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until

we manually kill and restart them.

ES Configuration 1:

ElasticSearch Version 0.19.2

2 Nodes, one on each physical server

Max heap size 6GB per node.

10 shards, 1 replica.

ES Configuration 2:

ElasticSearch Version 0.19.2

6 Nodes, three on each physical server

Max heap size 2GB per node.

10 shards, 5 replica.

Server Configuration:

Windows 7 64 bit

64 bit JVM

8 GB pysical memory

Dual Core processor

For both the configuration mentioned above ElasticSearch was unable to

respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to

recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.

We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request

you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach

if required.

The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:

(keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a

customized standard analyzer)

{

```
        "properties": { 

            "adjectives": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "stop2" 

            }, 

            "alertStatus": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "assignedByUserId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "assignedByUserName": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "assignedToDepartmentId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "assignedToDepartmentName": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "assignedToUserId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "assignedToUserName": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "authorJsonMetadata": { 

                "properties": { 

                    "favourites": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "followers": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "following": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "likes": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "listed": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "subscribers": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "subscription": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "uploads": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "views": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    } 

                } 

            }, 

            "authorKloutDetails": { 

                "dynamic": "true", 

                "properties": { 

                    "amplificationScore": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "authorKloutDetailsFound": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "description": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "influencees": { 

                        "dynamic": "true", 

                        "properties": { 

                            "kscore": { 

                                "type": "string" 

                            }, 

                            "twitter_screen_name": { 

                                "type": "string" 

                            } 

                        } 

                    }, 

                    "influencers": { 

                        "dynamic": "true", 

                        "properties": { 

                            "kscore": { 

                                "type": "string" 

                            }, 

                            "twitter_screen_name": { 

                                "type": "string" 

                            } 

                        } 

                    }, 

                    "kloutClass": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "kloutClassDescription": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "kloutScore": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "kloutScoreDescription": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "kloutTopic": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "slope": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "trueReach": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "twitterId": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "twitterScreenName": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    } 

                } 

            }, 

            "author_media": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "brandTerms": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "calculatedSentimentId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "calculatedSentimentName": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "categories": { 

                "properties": { 

                    "category": { 

                        "type": "string", 

                        "analyzer": "keyword1" 

                    }, 

                    "categoryWords": { 

                        "type": "string", 

                        "analyzer": "keyword1" 

                    }, 

                    "score": { 

                        "type": "double" 

                    } 

                } 

            }, 

            "commentCount": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "contentAuthorId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "contentAuthorName": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "contentId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "contentJsonMetadata": { 

                "properties": { 

                    "comment Count": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "dislikes": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "favourites": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "likes": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "retweet Count": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    }, 

                    "views": { 

                        "type": "string" 

                    } 

                } 

            }, 

            "contentPublishedTime": { 

                "type": "date", 

                "index": "analyzed", 

                "format": "dateOptionalTime" 

            }, 

            "contentTextFull": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "standard1" 

            }, 

            "contentTextFullHighlighted": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "standard1" 

            }, 

            "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "standard1" 

            }, 

            "contentType": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "contentUrlId": { 

                "type": "integer", 

                "index": "analyzed" 

            }, 

            "contentUrlPath": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "contentUrlPublishedTime": { 

                "type": "date", 

                "index": "analyzed", 

                "format": "dateOptionalTime" 

            }, 

            "ctmId": { 

                "type": "long" 

            }, 

            "domainName": { 

                "type": "string", 

                "analyzer": "keyword1" 

            }, 

            "domainUrl": { 

                "type": "string", 

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Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until

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more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures

that should have happened last year instead happen this year which

will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than

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[business/ci\_19899224\</a\>](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)[nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately), we can not avoid the headwinds.",

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---

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/9 "2012-04-27T12:00:46Z")

</div>

Hi,

We ran ES with settings

index.cache.field.type: soft  
index.cache.field.max\_size: 1000

And ES cache is showing following results on subsequent requests

"cache" : {  
"field\_evictions" : 67,  
"field\_size" : "1.7gb",  
"field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 1853666588,  
"filter\_count" : 0,  
"filter\_evictions" : 0,  
"filter\_size" : "0b",  
"filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
}

We see that field\_size is coming down after hitting the peak.  
We are running more tests, will update soon. Thanks for your help.

Regards,  
On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:02:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after that  
> your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is that  
> field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to do one  
> of the following changes to your Elasticsearch configuration:
> 
> 1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use  
> Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by  
> field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by  
> adding the following line to the configuration:  
> index.cache.field.type: soft
> 
> 2. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of entries.  
> You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per segment, not  
> per index. To set that, add the following line to the configuration:  
> index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000
> 
> Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will be  
> good for your deployment.
> 
> \*--  
> Regards,  
> Rafał Kuć  
> Sematext :: _[http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/)_ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> 
> - 
> 
> Also
> 
> following message has been printed  
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory  
> failure  
> along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.
> 
> Any help from that?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> Hi,
> 
> We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We  
> have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What  
> does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings  
> or elsewhere.
> 
> \*Initial State  
> \*{  
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> "hostname" : "01hw445748",  
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> },  
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> "cache" : {  
> "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> "field\_size" : "4.2gb",  
> "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 4587853968,  
> "filter\_count" : 0,  
> "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> },  
> "merges" : {  
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> }  
> }  
> }  
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> }
> 
> \*After three requests  
> ES down with heap space error.  
> No response.
> 
> \*Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> Hello!
> 
> Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run  
> the following command:
> 
> curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'
> 
> In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field  
> data cache, something like the following:
> 
> ```
> "cache" : {
> "field_evictions" : 0,
> "field_size" : "0b",
> "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
> "filter_count" : 1,
> "filter_evictions" : 0,
> "filter_size" : "32b",
> "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
> consumes.
> 
> --  
> Regards,  
> Rafał Kuć  
> Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Elasticsearch
> 
> W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> napisał:  
> Hi,
> 
> Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> anything to monitor explicitly?  
> I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> Hello,
> 
> Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> example query ?
> 
> Regards,  
> Rafał
> 
> W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> napisał:  
> Hi,
> 
> We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> 
> We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : { }  
> },  
> "size" : 0,  
> "facets" : {  
> "tag" : {  
> "terms" : {  
> "field" : "nouns",  
> "size" : 100  
> },  
> "\_cache":false  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : { }  
> },  
> "size" : 0,  
> "facets" : {  
> "tag" : {  
> "terms" : {  
> "field" : "phrases",  
> "size" : 100  
> },  
> "\_cache":false  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> we manually kill and restart them.
> 
> ES Configuration 1:  
> Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> 10 shards, 1 replica.
> 
> ES Configuration 2:  
> Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> 10 shards, 5 replica.
> 
> Server Configuration:  
> Windows 7 64 bit  
> 64 bit JVM  
> 8 GB pysical memory  
> Dual Core processor
> 
> For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> 
> We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> if required.
> 
> The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> customized standard analyzer)
> 
> {  
> "properties": {  
> "adjectives": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> },  
> "alertStatus": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedByUserId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedByUserName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedToUserId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedToUserName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> "properties": {  
> "favourites": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "followers": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "following": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "likes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "listed": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "subscribers": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "subscription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "uploads": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "views": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "authorKloutDetails": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "amplificationScore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "description": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "influencees": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "kscore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "influencers": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "kscore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "kloutClass": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutClassDescription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutScore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutTopic": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "slope": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "trueReach": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitterId": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitterScreenName": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "author\_media": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "brandTerms": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "categories": {  
> "properties": {  
> "category": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "categoryWords": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "score": {  
> "type": "double"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "commentCount": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentAuthorId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentAuthorName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> "properties": {  
> "comment Count": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "dislikes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "favourites": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "likes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "retweet Count": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "views": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "contentPublishedTime": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "index": "analyzed",  
> "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> },  
> "contentTextFull": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentType": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentUrlId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentUrlPath": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "index": "analyzed",  
> "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> },  
> "ctmId": {  
> "type": "long"  
> },  
> "domainName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "domainUrl": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "domain\_media": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "findings": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "geographyId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "geographyName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "kloutScore": {  
> "type": "object"  
> },  
> "languageId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "languageName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "notesCount": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "nouns": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> },  
> "opinionWords": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "phrases": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "profileId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "profileName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "topicId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "topicName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "userSentimentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "userSentimentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "verbs": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> 
> {  
> "contentType": "comment",  
> "topicId": 9,  
> "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> "contentId": 34834,  
> "ctmId": 73322,  
> "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\nhttp://www.mercurynews.[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)  
> com/ [http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)  
> business/ci\_19899224\<[Foreclosures at the high end increase across the Bay Area – The Mercury News](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)\>  
> nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> "commentCount": 117,  
> "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/)[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)  
> 2012/02/09/mortgage- [http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)  
> settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)  
> ",  
> "domainUrl": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com](http://www.bubbleinfo.com)",  
> "domainName": null,  
> "contentAuthorId": 15614,  
> "contentAuthorName": "Hankster",  
> "authorJsonMetadata": null,  
> "authorKloutDetails": null,  
> "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog",  
> "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif",  
> "mediaSourceTypeId": 1,  
> "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog",  
> "geographyId": 0,  
> "geographyName": "Unknown",  
> "languageId": 1,  
> "languageName": "English",  
> "topicName": "Bank of America",  
> "profileId": 3,  
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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/10 "2012-04-27T13:07:39Z")

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Hi,

The indexes are working fine now. We are running jmeter testing with  
multiple uses.  
We see the following in the prompt

[2012-04-27 18:28:27,181][WARN][monitor.jvm] [es\_node\_67]  
[gc][ParNew][4142][305] duration [1.4s], collections [1]/[4.3s], total  
[1.4s]/[21.8s],memory [5.7gb]-\>[5.7gb]/[5.9gb]

Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing internally? And please can  
you explain the settings you suggested in more details?  
Specially how segments and shards are related?

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:30:46 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We ran ES with settings
> 
> index.cache.field.type: soft  
> index.cache.field.max\_size: 1000
> 
> And ES cache is showing following results on subsequent requests
> 
> "cache" : {  
> "field\_evictions" : 67,  
> "field\_size" : "1.7gb",  
> "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 1853666588,  
> "filter\_count" : 0,  
> "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> }
> 
> We see that field\_size is coming down after hitting the peak.  
> We are running more tests, will update soon. Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,  
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:02:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after  
> > that your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is  
> > that field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to  
> > do one of the following changes to your Elasticsearch configuration:
> > 
> > 1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use  
> > Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by  
> > field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by  
> > adding the following line to the configuration:  
> > index.cache.field.type: soft
> > 
> > 2. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of entries.  
> > You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per segment, not  
> > per index. To set that, add the following line to the configuration:  
> > index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000
> > 
> > Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will be  
> > good for your deployment.
> > 
> > \*--  
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał Kuć  
> > Sematext :: _[http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/)_ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> > 
> > - 
> > 
> > Also
> > 
> > following message has been printed  
> > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory  
> > failure  
> > along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.
> > 
> > Any help from that?
> > 
> > Thanks and regards,
> > 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We  
> > have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What  
> > does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings  
> > or elsewhere.
> > 
> > \*Initial State  
> > \*{  
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> > "hostname" : "01hw445748",  
> > "attributes" : {  
> > "tag" : "es\_node\_102"  
> > },  
> > "indices" : {  
> > "store" : {  
> > "size" : "503.1mb",  
> > "size\_in\_bytes" : 527622079  
> > },  
> > "docs" : {  
> > "count" : 74250,  
> > "deleted" : 2705  
> > },  
> > "indexing" : {  
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> > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "index\_current" : 0,  
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> > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
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> > "delete\_current" : 0  
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> > }  
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> > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > },  
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> > "deleted" : 65007  
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> > \*After hitting query  
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> > }  
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> > \*After single request  
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> > "search" : {  
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> > "query\_time" : "1.9m",  
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> > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "cache" : {  
> > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "field\_size" : "4.9gb",  
> > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 5323063782,  
> > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "merges" : {  
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> > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
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> > "total\_docs" : 0,  
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> > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "refresh" : {  
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> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > },  
> > "flush" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "qpvNNHpcQ3i1Bz8BWvq4oA" : {  
> > "name" : "es\_node\_67",  
> > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.181.67:9300]",  
> > "hostname" : "01hw400248",  
> > "attributes" : {  
> > "tag" : "es\_node\_67"  
> > },  
> > "indices" : {  
> > "store" : {  
> > "size" : "8gb",  
> > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > },  
> > "docs" : {  
> > "count" : 1121886,  
> > "deleted" : 65007  
> > },  
> > "indexing" : {  
> > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "get" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "time" : "0s",  
> > "time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "exists\_total" : 0,  
> > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "search" : {  
> > "query\_total" : 9,  
> > "query\_time" : "49.6s",  
> > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 49662,  
> > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "cache" : {  
> > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "field\_size" : "4.2gb",  
> > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 4587853968,  
> > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "merges" : {  
> > "current" : 0,  
> > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "refresh" : {  
> > "total" : 171,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > },  
> > "flush" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > \*After three requests  
> > ES down with heap space error.  
> > No response.
> > 
> > \*Thanks and Regards,
> > 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run  
> > the following command:
> > 
> > curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'
> > 
> > In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field  
> > data cache, something like the following:
> > 
> > ```
> > "cache" : {
> > "field_evictions" : 0,
> > "field_size" : "0b",
> > "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
> > "filter_count" : 1,
> > "filter_evictions" : 0,
> > "filter_size" : "32b",
> > "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
> > }
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
> > consumes.
> > 
> > --  
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał Kuć  
> > Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch -  
> > Elasticsearch
> > 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:  
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> > state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > there in the cluster\_state details.
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > example query ?
> > 
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał
> > 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:  
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > 
> > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "match\_all" : { }  
> > },  
> > "size" : 0,  
> > "facets" : {  
> > "tag" : {  
> > "terms" : {  
> > "field" : "nouns",  
> > "size" : 100  
> > },  
> > "\_cache":false  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > {  
> > "query" : {  
> > "match\_all" : { }  
> > },  
> > "size" : 0,  
> > "facets" : {  
> > "tag" : {  
> > "terms" : {  
> > "field" : "phrases",  
> > "size" : 100  
> > },  
> > "\_cache":false  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > we manually kill and restart them.
> > 
> > ES Configuration 1:  
> > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > 
> > ES Configuration 2:  
> > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > 
> > Server Configuration:  
> > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > 64 bit JVM  
> > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > Dual Core processor
> > 
> > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > 
> > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > if required.
> > 
> > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > customized standard analyzer)
> > 
> > {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "adjectives": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > },  
> > "alertStatus": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "favourites": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "followers": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "following": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "likes": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "listed": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "subscribers": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "subscription": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "uploads": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "views": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > "dynamic": "true",  
> > "properties": {  
> > "amplificationScore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "description": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "influencees": {  
> > "dynamic": "true",  
> > "properties": {  
> > "kscore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "influencers": {  
> > "dynamic": "true",  
> > "properties": {  
> > "kscore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "kloutClass": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutScore": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "kloutTopic": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "slope": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "trueReach": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitterId": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "author\_media": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "brandTerms": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "categories": {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "category": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "categoryWords": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "score": {  
> > "type": "double"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "commentCount": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentAuthorId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentAuthorName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "contentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> > "properties": {  
> > "comment Count": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "dislikes": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "favourites": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "likes": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "retweet Count": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > },  
> > "views": {  
> > "type": "string"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "contentPublishedTime": {  
> > "type": "date",  
> > "index": "analyzed",  
> > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > },  
> > "contentTextFull": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > },  
> > "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > },  
> > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > },  
> > "contentType": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "contentUrlId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "contentUrlPath": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> > "type": "date",  
> > "index": "analyzed",  
> > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > },  
> > "ctmId": {  
> > "type": "long"  
> > },  
> > "domainName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "domainUrl": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "domain\_media": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "findings": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "geographyId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "geographyName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "kloutScore": {  
> > "type": "object"  
> > },  
> > "languageId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "languageName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "notesCount": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "nouns": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > },  
> > "opinionWords": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "phrases": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "profileId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "profileName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "topicId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "topicName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "userSentimentId": {  
> > "type": "integer",  
> > "index": "analyzed"  
> > },  
> > "userSentimentName": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > },  
> > "verbs": {  
> > "type": "string",  
> > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> > 
> > A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> > 
> > {  
> > "contentType": "comment",  
> > "topicId": 9,  
> > "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> > "contentId": 34834,  
> > "ctmId": 73322,  
> > "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> > Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> > settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> > more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> > that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> > will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> > 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> > million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> > increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> > short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> > increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> > settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> > inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> > out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> > asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> > underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> > Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> > 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> > we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> > The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\nhttp://www.mercurynews.[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)  
> > com/ [http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)  
> > business/ci\_19899224\<[Foreclosures at the high end increase across the Bay Area – The Mercury News](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately)\>  
> > nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> > we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> > "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> > published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> > until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> > result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> > foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> > "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> > "commentCount": 117,  
> > "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> > "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/)[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)  
> > 2012/02/09/mortgage- [http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)  
> > settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)  
> > ",  
> > "domainUrl": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com](http://www.bubbleinfo.com)",  
> > "domainName": null,  
> > "contentAuthorId": 15614,  
> > "contentAuthorName": "Hankster",  
> > "authorJsonMetadata": null,  
> > "authorKloutDetails": null,  
> > "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog",  
> > "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif",  
> > "mediaSourceTypeId": 1,  
> > "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog",  
> > "geographyId": 0,  
> > "geographyName": "Unknown",  
> > "languageId": 1,  
> > "languageName": "English",  
> > "topicName": "Bank of America",  
> > "profileId": 3,  
> > "profileName": "USAA\_Competition1",  
> > "contentPublishedTime": 1328798840000,  
> > "contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000,  
> > "calculatedSentimentId": 4,  
> > "calculatedSentimentName": "POS",  
> > "userSentimentId": 0,  
> > "userSentimentName": null,  
> > "listListeningObjectiveName": [  
> > "Untagged LO"  
> > ],  
> > "alertStatus": "assigned",  
> > "assignedToUserId": 2,  
> > "assignedToUserName": null,  
> > "assignedByUserId": 1,  
> > "assignedByUserName": null,  
> > "assignedToDepartmentId": 0,  
> > "assignedToDepartmentName": null,  
> > "notesCount": 0,  
> > "nouns": [  
> > "bank",  
> > "banks",  
> > "Bloomberg",  
> > "buddy",  
> > "Corelogic",  
> > "data",  
> > "estimates",  
> > "foreclosure",  
> > "foreclosures",  
> > "headwinds",  
> > "home",  
> > "house",  
> > "housing",  
> > "increase",  
> > "inventory",  
> > "line",  
> > "Luz",  
> > "market",  
> > "mm",  
> > "money",  
> > "month",  
> > "net",  
> > "news",  
> > "numbers",  
> > "pain",  
> > "payment",  
> > "percent",  
> > "Realtytrac",  
> > "RealtyTrac",  
> > "REOs",  
> > "result",  
> > "sales",  
> > "Santa",  
> > "SD",  
> > "settlement",  
> > "shadow",  
> > "term",  
> > "turn",  
> > "year",  
> > "Zillow"  
> > ],  
> > "verbs": [  
> > "asked",  
> > "avoid",  
> > "bought",  
> > "completed",  
> > "expect",  
> > "expected",  
> > "get",  
> > "happen",  
> > "happened",  
> > "help",  
> > "hit",  
> > "holding",  
> > "hovering",  
> > "increase",  
> > "makes",  
> > "plan",  
> > "published",  
> > "result",  
> > "stated",  
> > "staying",  
> > "suggests"  
> > ],  
> > "adjectives": [  
> > "bottom",  
> > "clear",  
> > "finally",  
> > "good",  
> > "high",  
> > "higher",  
> > "instead",  
> > "large",  
> > "last",  
> > "likely",  
> > "longer",  
> > "low",  
> > "nationally",  
> > "next",  
> > "not",  
> > "positive",  
> > "quickly",  
> > "short",  
> > "so-called",  
> > "underwater",  
> > "Unfortunately"  
> > ],  
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> > "2012 than 2011",  
> > "25 percent",  
> > "25 percent increase",  
> > "2700 underwater in 92130",  
> > "3800 underwater in 92127",  
> > "92130 The good news",  
> > "asked every month",  
> > "avoid the headwinds",  
> > "bank settlement",  
> > "banks holding off foreclosures",  
> > "banks more money",  
> > "Bloomberg and RealtyTrac",  
> > "bottom line",  
> > "bought in Santa",  
> > "bought in Santa Luz",  
> > "clear the so-called shadow",  
> > "completed foreclosures",  
> > "estimates from Realtytrac",  
> > "foreclosure numbers",  
> > "foreclosure numbers in 2012",  
> > "foreclosure pain",  
> > "foreclosures until settlement",  
> > "good news",  
> > "happen this year",  
> > "happen this year --",  
> > "happened last year",  
> > "help the housing",  
> > "help the housing market",  
> > "higher foreclosure",  
> > "higher foreclosure numbers",  
> > "holding off foreclosures",  
> > "housing market",  
> > "increase from 2011",  
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> > "large numbers",  
> > "last market",  
> > "last year",  
> > "longer term",  
> > "longer term the bank",  
> > "low numbers",  
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> > "makes his payment",  
> > "million completed foreclosures",  
> > "mm underwater home",  
> > "month by his bank",  
> > "nationally published by Corelogic",  
> > "net the banks",  
> > "not avoid the headwinds",  
> > "numbers in 2012",  
> > "percent increase",  
> > "percent increase from 2011",  
> > "published by Corelogic",  
> > "Realtytrac and Zillow",  
> > "result in higher foreclosure",  
> > "result in more foreclosure",  
> > "result of banks",  
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> > "sales net the banks",  
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> > "Santa Luz in 2006",  
> > "shadow inventory",  
> > "short sales",  
> > "short sales net",  
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> > "so-called shadow",  
> > "so-called shadow inventory",  
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> > "turn help the housing",  
> > "underwater home",  
> > "underwater in 92127",  
> > "underwater in 92130",  
> > "underwater in SD",  
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> > "domain\_media": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog](http://www.bubbleinfo.com~~~null ~~~1~~~ Blog)",  
> > "categories": [  
> > {  
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> > "foreclosure",  
> > "foreclosure"  
> > ],  
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> > },  
> > {  
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> > "categoryWords": [  
> > "term",  
> > "term"  
> > ],  
> > "score": "2.0"  
> > }  
> > ],  
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### Author: ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/11 "2012-04-27T13:58:18Z")

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If you submit a facet query on "nouns" or "phrases", ES loads all unique  
terms in the requested fields into memory. Refering to the mapping, as can  
be seen, these are analyzed fields. As a consequence, ES has to handle with  
a vast number of terms in contrast to not\_analyzed fields. It also depends  
on the application. String terms use lot of memory, Integers would use less.  
Because the default ES limit of field cache loading memory is unlimited,  
you will hit the ceiling and get OOM when you do not carefully estimate how  
much unique string terms you deal with in the faceted fields. You can then  
raise the limit if you have still more heap memory available, or, as has  
been suggested, you can establish a reasonable cache limit to avoid OOM.

Jörg

On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:07:39 PM UTC+2, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The indexes are working fine now. We are running jmeter testing with  
> multiple uses.  
> We see the following in the prompt
> 
> [2012-04-27 18:28:27,181][WARN][monitor.jvm] [es\_node\_67]  
> [gc][ParNew][4142][305] duration [1.4s], collections [1]/[4.3s], total  
> [1.4s]/[21.8s],memory [5.7gb]-\>[5.7gb]/[5.9gb]
> 
> Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing internally? And please can  
> you explain the settings you suggested in more details?  
> Specially how segments and shards are related?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:30:46 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We ran ES with settings
> > 
> > index.cache.field.type: soft  
> > index.cache.field.max\_size: 1000
> > 
> > And ES cache is showing following results on subsequent requests
> > 
> > "cache" : {  
> > "field\_evictions" : 67,  
> > "field\_size" : "1.7gb",  
> > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 1853666588,  
> > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > }
> > 
> > We see that field\_size is coming down after hitting the peak.  
> > We are running more tests, will update soon. Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Regards,  
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:02:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after  
> > > that your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is  
> > > that field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to  
> > > do one of the following changes to your Elasticsearch configuration:
> > > 
> > > 1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use  
> > > Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by  
> > > field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by  
> > > adding the following line to the configuration:  
> > > index.cache.field.type: soft
> > > 
> > > 2. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of  
> > > entries. You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per  
> > > segment, not per index. To set that, add the following line to the  
> > > configuration:  
> > > index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000
> > > 
> > > Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will  
> > > be good for your deployment.
> > > 
> > > \*--  
> > > Regards,  
> > > Rafał Kuć  
> > > Sematext :: _[http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/)_ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> > > 
> > > - 
> > > 
> > > Also
> > > 
> > > following message has been printed  
> > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory  
> > > failure  
> > > along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.
> > > 
> > > Any help from that?
> > > 
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response.  
> > > We have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations.  
> > > What does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in  
> > > settings or elsewhere.
> > > 
> > > \*Initial State  
> > > \*{  
> > > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",  
> > > "nodes" : {  
> > > "zM7byv\_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {  
> > > "name" : "es\_node\_102",  
> > > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.177.102:9300]",  
> > > "hostname" : "01hw445748",  
> > > "attributes" : {  
> > > "tag" : "es\_node\_102"  
> > > },  
> > > "indices" : {  
> > > "store" : {  
> > > "size" : "503.1mb",  
> > > "size\_in\_bytes" : 527622079  
> > > },  
> > > "docs" : {  
> > > "count" : 74250,  
> > > "deleted" : 2705  
> > > },  
> > > "indexing" : {  
> > > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "get" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "time" : "0s",  
> > > "time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "exists\_total" : 0,  
> > > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "search" : {  
> > > "query\_total" : 0,  
> > > "query\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "cache" : {  
> > > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "field\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "merges" : {  
> > > "current" : 0,  
> > > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "refresh" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "flush" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "qpvNNHpcQ3i1Bz8BWvq4oA" : {  
> > > "name" : "es\_node\_67",  
> > > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.181.67:9300]",  
> > > "hostname" : "01hw400248",  
> > > "attributes" : {  
> > > "tag" : "es\_node\_67"  
> > > },  
> > > "indices" : {  
> > > "store" : {  
> > > "size" : "8gb",  
> > > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > > },  
> > > "docs" : {  
> > > "count" : 1121886,  
> > > "deleted" : 65007  
> > > },  
> > > "indexing" : {  
> > > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "get" : {  
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> > > "time" : "0s",  
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> > > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
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> > > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "search" : {  
> > > "query\_total" : 0,  
> > > "query\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "cache" : {  
> > > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "field\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "merges" : {  
> > > "current" : 0,  
> > > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "refresh" : {  
> > > "total" : 171,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "flush" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > \*After hitting query  
> > > \*{  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > \*After single request  
> > > \*{  
> > > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",  
> > > "nodes" : {  
> > > "zM7byv\_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {  
> > > "name" : "es\_node\_102",  
> > > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.177.102:9300]",  
> > > "hostname" : "01hw445748",  
> > > "attributes" : {  
> > > "tag" : "es\_node\_102"  
> > > },  
> > > "indices" : {  
> > > "store" : {  
> > > "size" : "6.3gb",  
> > > "size\_in\_bytes" : 6787402724  
> > > },  
> > > "docs" : {  
> > > "count" : 876639,  
> > > "deleted" : 56407  
> > > },  
> > > "indexing" : {  
> > > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "get" : {  
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> > > "time" : "0s",  
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> > > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "search" : {  
> > > "query\_total" : 2,  
> > > "query\_time" : "21.8s",  
> > > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 21869,  
> > > "query\_current" : 4,  
> > > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
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> > > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "cache" : {  
> > > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "field\_size" : "3.5gb",  
> > > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 3834410088,  
> > > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "merges" : {  
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> > > }  
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> > > "qpvNNHpcQ3i1Bz8BWvq4oA" : {  
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> > > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.181.67:9300]",  
> > > "hostname" : "01hw400248",  
> > > "attributes" : {  
> > > "tag" : "es\_node\_67"  
> > > },  
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> > > "store" : {  
> > > "size" : "8gb",  
> > > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > > },  
> > > "docs" : {  
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> > > "deleted" : 65007  
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> > > "query\_time" : "21.8s",  
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> > > "query\_current" : 0,  
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> > > },  
> > > "cache" : {  
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> > > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 2653970178,  
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> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > \*After two requests  
> > > \*{  
> > > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",  
> > > "nodes" : {  
> > > "zM7byv\_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {  
> > > "name" : "es\_node\_102",  
> > > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.177.102:9300]",  
> > > "hostname" : "01hw445748",  
> > > "attributes" : {  
> > > "tag" : "es\_node\_102"  
> > > },  
> > > "indices" : {  
> > > "store" : {  
> > > "size" : "8gb",  
> > > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > > },  
> > > "docs" : {  
> > > "count" : 1121886,  
> > > "deleted" : 65007  
> > > },  
> > > "indexing" : {  
> > > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "get" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "time" : "0s",  
> > > "time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "exists\_total" : 0,  
> > > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "search" : {  
> > > "query\_total" : 11,  
> > > "query\_time" : "1.9m",  
> > > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 116142,  
> > > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "cache" : {  
> > > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "field\_size" : "4.9gb",  
> > > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 5323063782,  
> > > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "merges" : {  
> > > "current" : 0,  
> > > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "refresh" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "flush" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "qpvNNHpcQ3i1Bz8BWvq4oA" : {  
> > > "name" : "es\_node\_67",  
> > > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.181.67:9300]",  
> > > "hostname" : "01hw400248",  
> > > "attributes" : {  
> > > "tag" : "es\_node\_67"  
> > > },  
> > > "indices" : {  
> > > "store" : {  
> > > "size" : "8gb",  
> > > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > > },  
> > > "docs" : {  
> > > "count" : 1121886,  
> > > "deleted" : 65007  
> > > },  
> > > "indexing" : {  
> > > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "get" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "time" : "0s",  
> > > "time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "exists\_total" : 0,  
> > > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "search" : {  
> > > "query\_total" : 9,  
> > > "query\_time" : "49.6s",  
> > > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 49662,  
> > > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "cache" : {  
> > > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "field\_size" : "4.2gb",  
> > > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 4587853968,  
> > > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "merges" : {  
> > > "current" : 0,  
> > > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "refresh" : {  
> > > "total" : 171,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > },  
> > > "flush" : {  
> > > "total" : 0,  
> > > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > \*After three requests  
> > > ES down with heap space error.  
> > > No response.
> > > 
> > > \*Thanks and Regards,
> > > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run  
> > > the following command:
> > > 
> > > curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'
> > > 
> > > In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field  
> > > data cache, something like the following:
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > "cache" : {
> > > "field_evictions" : 0,
> > > "field_size" : "0b",
> > > "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
> > > "filter_count" : 1,
> > > "filter_evictions" : 0,
> > > "filter_size" : "32b",
> > > "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
> > > }
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
> > > consumes.
> > > 
> > > --  
> > > Regards,  
> > > Rafał Kuć  
> > > Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch -  
> > > Elasticsearch
> > > 
> > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > napisał:  
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to  
> > > set anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor  
> > > cluster state and health, I didn't find anything like  
> > > index.cache.field.max\_size there in the cluster\_state details.
> > > 
> > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > example query ?
> > > 
> > > Regards,  
> > > Rafał
> > > 
> > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > napisał:  
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > 
> > > Server Configuration:  
> > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > Dual Core processor
> > > 
> > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > 
> > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > if required.
> > > 
> > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "adjectives": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "followers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "following": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "listed": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscribers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "uploads": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "description": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "influencees": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "influencers": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "slope": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "trueReach": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterId": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "author\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "brandTerms": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categories": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "category": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categoryWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "score": {  
> > > "type": "double"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "commentCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "comment Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "dislikes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "retweet Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "contentPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFull": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentType": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "ctmId": {  
> > > "type": "long"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainUrl": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domain\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "findings": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "object"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "notesCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "nouns": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "opinionWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "phrases": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "verbs": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "contentType": "comment",  
> > > "topicId": 9,  
> > > "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> > > "contentId": 34834,  
> > > "ctmId": 73322,  
> > > "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> > > Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> > > settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> > > more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> > > that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> > > will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> > > 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> > > million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> > > increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> > > short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> > > increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> > > settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
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### Author: ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/12 "2012-04-27T14:17:00Z")

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Hello!

In addition to what Jörg has written I suggested using soft cache  
type. Soft type field data cache uses Java soft references in order to  
be able to free memory when GC demands that.

You can read about soft references here: [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ref/SoftReference.html](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ref/SoftReference.html)

--  
Regards,  
Rafał Kuć  
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch

If you submit a facet query on "nouns" or "phrases", ES loads all unique terms in the requested fields into memory. Refering to the mapping, as can be seen, these are analyzed fields. As a consequence, ES has to handle with a vast number of terms in contrast to not\_analyzed fields. It also depends on the application. String terms use lot of memory, Integers would use less.  
Because the default ES limit of field cache loading memory is unlimited, you will hit the ceiling and get OOM when you do not carefully estimate how much unique string terms you deal with in the faceted fields. You can then raise the limit if you have still more heap memory available, or, as has been suggested, you can establish a reasonable cache limit to avoid OOM.

Jörg

On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:07:39 PM UTC+2, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
Hi,

The indexes are working fine now. We are running jmeter testing with multiple uses.  
We see the following in the prompt

[2012-04-27 18:28:27,181][WARN][monitor.jvm] [es\_node\_67] [gc][ParNew][4142][305] duration [1.4s], collections [1]/[4.3s], total [1.4s]/[21.8s],memory [5.7gb]-\>[5.7gb]/[5.9gb]

Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing internally? And please can you explain the settings you suggested in more details?  
Specially how segments and shards are related?

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:30:46 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
Hi,

We ran ES with settings

index.cache.field.type: soft  
index.cache.field.max\_size: 1000

And ES cache is showing following results on subsequent requests  
"cache" : { "field\_evictions" : 67, "field\_size" : "1.7gb", "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 1853666588, "filter\_count" : 0, "filter\_evictions" : 0, "filter\_size" : "0b", "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0 }

We see that field\_size is coming down after hitting the peak.  
We are running more tests, will update soon. Thanks for your help.

Regards,  
On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:02:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
Hello!

Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after that your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is that field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to do one of the following changes to your ElasticSearch configuration:

1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by adding the following line to the configuration:  
index.cache.field.type: soft

2. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of entries. You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per segment, not per index. To set that, add the following line to the configuration:  
index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000

Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will be good for your deployment.

--  
Regards,  
Rafał Kuć  
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch

Also

following message has been printed  
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory failure  
along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.

Any help from that?

Thanks and regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
Hi,

We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings or elsewhere.

Initial State  
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After three requests  
ES down with heap space error.  
No response.

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
Hello!

Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run the following command:

curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'

In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field data cache, something like the following:

```
"cache" : {
      "field_evictions" : 0,
      "field_size" : "0b",
      "field_size_in_bytes" : 0,
      "filter_count" : 1,
      "filter_evictions" : 0,
      "filter_size" : "32b",
      "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32
    }

```

With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache consumes.

--  
Regards,  
Rafał Kuć  
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - ElasticSearch

W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett napisał:  
Hi,

Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set anything to monitor explicitly?  
I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size there in the cluster\_state details.

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
Hello,

Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the example query ?

Regards,  
Rafał

W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett napisał:  
Hi,

We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.

We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
Following are some example of the query we execute:  
{  
"query" : {  
"match\_all" : { }  
},  
"size" : 0,  
"facets" : {  
"tag" : {  
"terms" : {  
"field" : "nouns",  
"size" : 100  
},  
"\_cache":false  
}  
}  
}

{  
"query" : {  
"match\_all" : { }  
},  
"size" : 0,  
"facets" : {  
"tag" : {  
"terms" : {  
"field" : "phrases",  
"size" : 100  
},  
"\_cache":false  
}  
}  
}

While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
we manually kill and restart them.

ES Configuration 1:  
ElasticSearch Version 0.19.2  
2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
Max heap size 6GB per node.  
10 shards, 1 replica.

ES Configuration 2:  
ElasticSearch Version 0.19.2  
6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
Max heap size 2GB per node.  
10 shards, 5 replica.

Server Configuration:  
Windows 7 64 bit  
64 bit JVM  
8 GB pysical memory  
Dual Core processor

For both the configuration mentioned above ElasticSearch was unable to  
respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.

We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
if required.

The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
(keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
customized standard analyzer)

{  
"properties": {  
"adjectives": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "stop2"  
},  
"alertStatus": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"assignedByUserId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"assignedByUserName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"assignedToDepartmentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"assignedToDepartmentName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"assignedToUserId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"assignedToUserName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"authorJsonMetadata": {  
"properties": {  
"favourites": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"followers": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"following": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"likes": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"listed": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"subscribers": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"subscription": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"uploads": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"views": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"authorKloutDetails": {  
"dynamic": "true",  
"properties": {  
"amplificationScore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"description": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"influencees": {  
"dynamic": "true",  
"properties": {  
"kscore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitter\_screen\_name": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"influencers": {  
"dynamic": "true",  
"properties": {  
"kscore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitter\_screen\_name": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"kloutClass": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutClassDescription": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutScore": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutScoreDescription": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"kloutTopic": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"slope": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"trueReach": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitterId": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"twitterScreenName": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"author\_media": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"brandTerms": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"calculatedSentimentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"calculatedSentimentName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"categories": {  
"properties": {  
"category": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"categoryWords": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"score": {  
"type": "double"  
}  
}  
},  
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"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentAuthorId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentAuthorName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"contentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentJsonMetadata": {  
"properties": {  
"comment Count": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"dislikes": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"favourites": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"likes": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"retweet Count": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"views": {  
"type": "string"  
}  
}  
},  
"contentPublishedTime": {  
"type": "date",  
"index": "analyzed",  
"format": "dateOptionalTime"  
},  
"contentTextFull": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard1"  
},  
"contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard1"  
},  
"contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "standard1"  
},  
"contentType": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"contentUrlId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"contentUrlPath": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
"type": "date",  
"index": "analyzed",  
"format": "dateOptionalTime"  
},  
"ctmId": {  
"type": "long"  
},  
"domainName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"domainUrl": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"domain\_media": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"findings": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"geographyId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"geographyName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"kloutScore": {  
"type": "object"  
},  
"languageId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"languageName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"listListeningObjectiveName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"mediaSourceIconPath": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"mediaSourceId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"mediaSourceName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"mediaSourceTypeId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"mediaSourceTypeName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"notesCount": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
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"nouns": {  
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"analyzer": "stop2"  
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"opinionWords": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"phrases": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"profileId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"profileName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"topicId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"topicName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"userSentimentId": {  
"type": "integer",  
"index": "analyzed"  
},  
"userSentimentName": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "keyword1"  
},  
"verbs": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "stop2"  
}  
}  
}

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"topicId": 9,  
"mediaSourceId": 3,  
"contentId": 34834,  
"ctmId": 73322,  
"contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\nhttp://www.mercurynews.com/  
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"commentCount": 117,  
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"contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
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"domainUrl": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com](http://www.bubbleinfo.com)",  
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"contentAuthorName": "Hankster",  
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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/13 "2012-04-27T14:58:45Z")

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Hi,

We know that facet queries on a Keyword analyzed String Array field takes a  
lot of memory.  
But that is specifically what we want, for displaying Tag-Clouds or  
Keyword-Clouds on the fly, and applying filters and drill-down capabilities  
on them dynamically.  
We are currently trying to establish the reasonable cache limit as  
suggested by Jörg.

We have applied the soft type field, on suggestion of Rafał, and after that  
the indexes freeing cache when required.

Thanks,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:47:00 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> In addition to what Jörg has written I suggested using soft cache  
> type. Soft type field data cache uses Java soft references in order to  
> be able to free memory when GC demands that.
> 
> You can read about soft references here:  
> [SoftReference (Java Platform SE 6)](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ref/SoftReference.html)
> 
> --  
> Regards,  
> Rafał Kuć  
> Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> 
> If you submit a facet query on "nouns" or "phrases", ES loads all unique  
> terms in the requested fields into memory. Refering to the mapping, as can  
> be seen, these are analyzed fields. As a consequence, ES has to handle with  
> a vast number of terms in contrast to not\_analyzed fields. It also depends  
> on the application. String terms use lot of memory, Integers would use  
> less.  
> Because the default ES limit of field cache loading memory is unlimited,  
> you will hit the ceiling and get OOM when you do not carefully estimate how  
> much unique string terms you deal with in the faceted fields. You can then  
> raise the limit if you have still more heap memory available, or, as has  
> been suggested, you can establish a reasonable cache limit to avoid OOM.
> 
> Jörg
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:07:39 PM UTC+2, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> Hi,
> 
> The indexes are working fine now. We are running jmeter testing with  
> multiple uses.  
> We see the following in the prompt
> 
> [2012-04-27 18:28:27,181][WARN][monitor.jvm] [es\_node\_67]  
> [gc][ParNew][4142][305] duration [1.4s], collections [1]/[4.3s], total  
> [1.4s]/[21.8s],memory [5.7gb]-\>[5.7gb]/[5.9gb]
> 
> Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing internally? And please can  
> you explain the settings you suggested in more details?  
> Specially how segments and shards are related?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:30:46 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> Hi,
> 
> We ran ES with settings
> 
> index.cache.field.type: soft  
> index.cache.field.max\_size: 1000
> 
> And ES cache is showing following results on subsequent requests  
> "cache" : { "field\_evictions" : 67, "field\_size" : "1.7gb",  
> "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 1853666588, "filter\_count" : 0, "filter\_evictions"  
> : 0, "filter\_size" : "0b", "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0 }
> 
> We see that field\_size is coming down after hitting the peak.  
> We are running more tests, will update soon. Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,  
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:02:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> Hello!
> 
> Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after that  
> your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is that  
> field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to do one  
> of the following changes to your Elasticsearch configuration:
> 
> 1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use  
> Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by  
> field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by  
> adding the following line to the configuration:  
> index.cache.field.type: soft
> 
> 2. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of entries.  
> You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per segment, not  
> per index. To set that, add the following line to the configuration:  
> index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000
> 
> Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will be  
> good for your deployment.
> 
> --  
> Regards,  
> Rafał Kuć  
> Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> 
> Also
> 
> following message has been printed  
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory  
> failure  
> along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.
> 
> Any help from that?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> Hi,
> 
> We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We  
> have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What  
> does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings  
> or elsewhere.
> 
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> "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> "total\_docs" : 0,  
> "total\_size" : "0b",  
> "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> },  
> "refresh" : {  
> "total" : 171,  
> "total\_time" : "0s",  
> "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> },  
> "flush" : {  
> "total" : 0,  
> "total\_time" : "0s",  
> "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> After three requests  
> ES down with heap space error.  
> No response.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> Hello!
> 
> Nodes statistics provide information about cache usage. For example run  
> the following command:
> 
> curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/nodes/stats?pretty=true'
> 
> In the output you should find the statistics for both filter and field  
> data cache, something like the following:
> 
> ```
> "cache" : { 
> "field_evictions" : 0, 
> "field_size" : "0b", 
> "field_size_in_bytes" : 0, 
> "filter_count" : 1, 
> "filter_evictions" : 0, 
> "filter_size" : "32b", 
> "filter_size_in_bytes" : 32 
> } 
> 
> ```
> 
> With it you should be able to see how much memory your field data cache  
> consumes.
> 
> --  
> Regards,  
> Rafał Kuć  
> Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch -  
> Elasticsearch
> 
> W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:42:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> napisał:  
> Hi,
> 
> Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> anything to monitor explicitly?  
> I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> Hello,
> 
> Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> example query ?
> 
> Regards,  
> Rafał
> 
> W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> napisał:  
> Hi,
> 
> We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> 
> We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : { }  
> },  
> "size" : 0,  
> "facets" : {  
> "tag" : {  
> "terms" : {  
> "field" : "nouns",  
> "size" : 100  
> },  
> "\_cache":false  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : { }  
> },  
> "size" : 0,  
> "facets" : {  
> "tag" : {  
> "terms" : {  
> "field" : "phrases",  
> "size" : 100  
> },  
> "\_cache":false  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> we manually kill and restart them.
> 
> ES Configuration 1:  
> Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> 10 shards, 1 replica.
> 
> ES Configuration 2:  
> Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> 10 shards, 5 replica.
> 
> Server Configuration:  
> Windows 7 64 bit  
> 64 bit JVM  
> 8 GB pysical memory  
> Dual Core processor
> 
> For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> 
> We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> if required.
> 
> The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> customized standard analyzer)
> 
> {  
> "properties": {  
> "adjectives": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> },  
> "alertStatus": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedByUserId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedByUserName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "assignedToUserId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "assignedToUserName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> "properties": {  
> "favourites": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "followers": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "following": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "likes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "listed": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "subscribers": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "subscription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "uploads": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "views": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "authorKloutDetails": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "amplificationScore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "description": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "influencees": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "kscore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "influencers": {  
> "dynamic": "true",  
> "properties": {  
> "kscore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "kloutClass": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutClassDescription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutScore": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "kloutTopic": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "slope": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "trueReach": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitterId": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "twitterScreenName": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "author\_media": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "brandTerms": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "categories": {  
> "properties": {  
> "category": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "categoryWords": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "score": {  
> "type": "double"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "commentCount": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentAuthorId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentAuthorName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> "properties": {  
> "comment Count": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "dislikes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "favourites": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "likes": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "retweet Count": {  
> "type": "string"  
> },  
> "views": {  
> "type": "string"  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "contentPublishedTime": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "index": "analyzed",  
> "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> },  
> "contentTextFull": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "standard1"  
> },  
> "contentType": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentUrlId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "contentUrlPath": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> "type": "date",  
> "index": "analyzed",  
> "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> },  
> "ctmId": {  
> "type": "long"  
> },  
> "domainName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "domainUrl": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "domain\_media": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "findings": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "geographyId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "geographyName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "kloutScore": {  
> "type": "object"  
> },  
> "languageId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "languageName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "notesCount": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "nouns": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> },  
> "opinionWords": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "phrases": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "profileId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "profileName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "topicId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "topicName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "userSentimentId": {  
> "type": "integer",  
> "index": "analyzed"  
> },  
> "userSentimentName": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> },  
> "verbs": {  
> "type": "string",  
> "analyzer": "stop2"  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> 
> {  
> "contentType": "comment",  
> "topicId": 9,  
> "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> "contentId": 34834,  
> "ctmId": 73322,  
> "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\n[http://www.mercurynews.com/](http://www.mercurynews.com/)  
> business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately, we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> "commentCount": 117,  
> "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
> settlement-renegade/",  
> "domainUrl": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com](http://www.bubbleinfo.com)",  
> "domainName": null,  
> "contentAuthorId": 15614,  
> "contentAuthorName": "Hankster",  
> "authorJsonMetadata": null,  
> "authorKloutDetails": null,  
> "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog",  
> "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif",  
> "mediaSourceTypeId": 1,  
> "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog",  
> "geographyId": 0,  
> "geographyName": "Unknown",  
> "languageId": 1,  
> "languageName": "English",  
> "topicName": "Bank of America",  
> "profileId": 3,  
> "profileName": "USAA\_Competition1",  
> "contentPublishedTime": 1328798840000,  
> "contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000,  
> "calculatedSentimentId": 4,  
> "calculatedSentimentName": "POS",  
> "userSentimentId": 0,  
> "userSentimentName": null,  
> "listListeningObjectiveName": [  
> "Untagged LO"  
> ],  
> "alertStatus": "assigned",  
> "assignedToUserId": 2,  
> "assignedToUserName": null,  
> "assignedByUserId": 1,  
> "assignedByUserName": null,  
> "assignedToDepartmentId": 0,  
> "assignedToDepartmentName": null,  
> "notesCount": 0,  
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> "banks",  
> "Bloomberg",  
> "buddy",  
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> "data",  
> "estimates",  
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> "headwinds",  
> "home",  
> "house",  
> "housing",  
> "increase",  
> "inventory",  
> "line",  
> "Luz",  
> "market",  
> "mm",  
> "money",  
> "month",  
> "net",  
> "news",  
> "numbers",  
> "pain",  
> "payment",  
> "percent",  
> "Realtytrac",  
> "RealtyTrac",  
> "REOs",  
> "result",  
> "sales",  
> "Santa",  
> "SD",  
> "settlement",  
> "shadow",  
> "term",  
> "turn",  
> "year",  
> "Zillow"  
> ],  
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> "asked",  
> "avoid",  
> "bought",  
> "completed",  
> "expect",  
> "expected",  
> "get",  
> "happen",  
> "happened",  
> "help",  
> "hit",  
> "holding",  
> "hovering",  
> "increase",  
> "makes",  
> "plan",  
> "published",  
> "result",  
> "stated",  
> "staying",  
> "suggests"  
> ],  
> "adjectives": [  
> "bottom",  
> "clear",  
> "finally",  
> "good",  
> "high",  
> "higher",  
> "instead",  
> "large",  
> "last",  
> "likely",  
> "longer",  
> "low",  
> "nationally",  
> "next",  
> "not",  
> "positive",  
> "quickly",  
> "short",  
> "so-called",  
> "underwater",  
> "Unfortunately"  
> ],  
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> "2012 than 2011",  
> "25 percent",  
> "25 percent increase",  
> "2700 underwater in 92130",  
> "3800 underwater in 92127",  
> "92130 The good news",  
> "asked every month",  
> "avoid the headwinds",  
> "bank settlement",  
> "banks holding off foreclosures",  
> "banks more money",  
> "Bloomberg and RealtyTrac",  
> "bottom line",  
> "bought in Santa",  
> "bought in Santa Luz",  
> "clear the so-called shadow",  
> "completed foreclosures",  
> "estimates from Realtytrac",  
> "foreclosure numbers",  
> "foreclosure numbers in 2012",  
> "foreclosure pain",  
> "foreclosures until settlement",  
> "good news",  
> "happen this year",  
> "happen this year --",  
> "happened last year",  
> "help the housing",  
> "help the housing market",  
> "higher foreclosure",  
> "higher foreclosure numbers",  
> "holding off foreclosures",  
> "housing market",  
> "increase from 2011",  
> "increase The bottom line",  
> "instead happen this year",  
> "large numbers",  
> "last market",  
> "last year",  
> "longer term",  
> "longer term the bank",  
> "low numbers",  
> "Luz in 2006",  
> "makes his payment",  
> "million completed foreclosures",  
> "mm underwater home",  
> "month by his bank",  
> "nationally published by Corelogic",  
> "net the banks",  
> "not avoid the headwinds",  
> "numbers in 2012",  
> "percent increase",  
> "percent increase from 2011",  
> "published by Corelogic",  
> "Realtytrac and Zillow",  
> "result in higher foreclosure",  
> "result in more foreclosure",  
> "result of banks",  
> "sales net",  
> "sales net the banks",  
> "Santa Luz",  
> "Santa Luz in 2006",  
> "shadow inventory",  
> "short sales",  
> "short sales net",  
> "short term",  
> "so-called shadow",  
> "so-called shadow inventory",  
> "staying in the house",  
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> "term the bank",  
> "term the bank settlement",  
> "turn help the housing",  
> "underwater home",  
> "underwater in 92127",  
> "underwater in 92130",  
> "underwater in SD",  
> "year --"  
> ],  
> "author\_media": "15614 ~~~Hankster~~~ 1~~~Blog",  
> "domain\_media": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog](http://www.bubbleinfo.com~~~null ~~~1~~~ Blog)",  
> "categories": [  
> {  
> "category": "post closing",  
> "categoryWords": [  
> "foreclosure",  
> "foreclosure"  
> ],  
> "score": "2.0"  
> },  
> {  
> "category": "pre buy research",  
> "categoryWords": [  
> "term",  
> "term"  
> ],  
> "score": "2.0"  
> }  
> ],  
> "opinionWords": [  
> "positive",  
> "good news",  
> "expect",  
> "unfortunately"  
> ],  
> "brandTerms": ,  
> "findings":   
> }

---

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### Author: ![jagdeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jagdeep](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagdeep)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/14 "2012-04-27T16:08:39Z")

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Hi,

In this case we have observed, "dumping the heap to a hprof  
file" takes too much time because it tries to dump some 6GB data in  
this file.

Is there any way to stop dumping data in this file and straight away  
release the memory once we hit the heap space limit.

Thanks & Regards

On Apr 27, 7:58 pm, Sujoy Sett [sujoys...@gmail.com](mailto:sujoys...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We know that facet queries on a Keyword analyzed String Array field takes a  
> lot of memory.  
> But that is specifically what we want, for displaying Tag-Clouds or  
> Keyword-Clouds on the fly, and applying filters and drill-down capabilities  
> on them dynamically.  
> We are currently trying to establish the reasonable cache limit as  
> suggested by Jörg.
> 
> We have applied the soft type field, on suggestion of Rafał, and after that  
> the indexes freeing cache when required.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:47:00 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> 
> > In addition to what Jörg has written I suggested using soft cache  
> > type. Soft type field data cache uses Java soft references in order to  
> > be able to free memory when GC demands that.
> 
> > You can read about soft references here:  
> > [JDK 21 Documentation - Home](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ref/SoftReference)....
> 
> > --  
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał Kuć  
> > Sematext ::[http://sematext.com/::](http://sematext.com/::) Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> 
> > If you submit a facet query on "nouns" or "phrases", ES loads all unique  
> > terms in the requested fields into memory. Refering to the mapping, as can  
> > be seen, these are analyzed fields. As a consequence, ES has to handle with  
> > a vast number of terms in contrast to not\_analyzed fields. It also depends  
> > on the application. String terms use lot of memory, Integers would use  
> > less.  
> > Because the default ES limit of field cache loading memory is unlimited,  
> > you will hit the ceiling and get OOM when you do not carefully estimate how  
> > much unique string terms you deal with in the faceted fields. You can then  
> > raise the limit if you have still more heap memory available, or, as has  
> > been suggested, you can establish a reasonable cache limit to avoid OOM.
> 
> > Jörg
> 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:07:39 PM UTC+2, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> > Hi,
> 
> > The indexes are working fine now. We are running jmeter testing with  
> > multiple uses.  
> > We see the following in the prompt
> 
> > [2012-04-27 18:28:27,181][WARN][monitor.jvm] [es\_node\_67]  
> > [gc][ParNew][4142][305] duration [1.4s], collections [1]/[4.3s], total  
> > [1.4s]/[21.8s],memory [5.7gb]-\>[5.7gb]/[5.9gb]
> 
> > Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing internally? And please can  
> > you explain the settings you suggested in more details?  
> > Specially how segments and shards are related?
> 
> > Thanks and Regards,
> 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:30:46 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> > Hi,
> 
> > We ran ES with settings
> 
> > index.cache.field.type: soft  
> > index.cache.field.max\_size: 1000
> 
> > And ES cache is showing following results on subsequent requests  
> > "cache" : { "field\_evictions" : 67, "field\_size" : "1.7gb",  
> > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 1853666588, "filter\_count" : 0, "filter\_evictions"  
> > : 0, "filter\_size" : "0b", "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0 }
> 
> > We see that field\_size is coming down after hitting the peak.  
> > We are running more tests, will update soon. Thanks for your help.
> 
> > Regards,  
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 5:02:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:  
> > Hello!
> 
> > Before hitting ES with query you had empty field data cache and after that  
> > your cache was way higher - 3.5gb and 2.4gb. The default settings is that  
> > field data cache is unlimited (in terms of entries). You may want to do one  
> > of the following changes to your Elasticsearch configuration:
> 
> > 1. Set field data cache type to soft. This will cause this cache to use  
> > Java soft references and thus will enable GC to release memory used by  
> > field data cache, when more heap memory is needed. You can do that by  
> > adding the following line to the configuration:  
> > index.cache.field.type: soft
> 
> > 1. Limit field data cache size, by setting its maximum number of entries.  
> > You have to remember that maximum number of settings is per segment, not  
> > per index. To set that, add the following line to the configuration:  
> > index.cache.field.max\_size: 10000
> 
> > Treat the above value as an example, I can't predict what setting will be  
> > good for your deployment.
> 
> > --  
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał Kuć  
> > Sematext ::[http://sematext.com/::](http://sematext.com/::) Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> 
> > Also
> 
> > following message has been printed  
> > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: loading field [phrases] caused out of memory  
> > failure  
> > along with lots of stack traces in the ES prompt.
> 
> > Any help from that?
> 
> > Thanks and regards,
> 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:44:19 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:  
> > Hi,
> 
> > We really appreciate and are thankful to you for your prompt response. We  
> > have tested the same with our indexes. Following are the observations. What  
> > does it imply and please suggest if we are doing anything wrong in settings  
> > or elsewhere.
> 
> > Initial State  
> > {  
> > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch\_local\_0\_19",  
> > "nodes" : {  
> > "zM7byv\_qT7CbTNJprWCl5g" : {  
> > "name" : "es\_node\_102",  
> > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.177.102:9300]",  
> > "hostname" : "01hw445748",  
> > "attributes" : {  
> > "tag" : "es\_node\_102"  
> > },  
> > "indices" : {  
> > "store" : {  
> > "size" : "503.1mb",  
> > "size\_in\_bytes" : 527622079  
> > },  
> > "docs" : {  
> > "count" : 74250,  
> > "deleted" : 2705  
> > },  
> > "indexing" : {  
> > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "get" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "time" : "0s",  
> > "time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "exists\_total" : 0,  
> > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "search" : {  
> > "query\_total" : 0,  
> > "query\_time" : "0s",  
> > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "cache" : {  
> > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "field\_size" : "0b",  
> > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "merges" : {  
> > "current" : 0,  
> > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "refresh" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > },  
> > "flush" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > }  
> > }  
> > },  
> > "qpvNNHpcQ3i1Bz8BWvq4oA" : {  
> > "name" : "es\_node\_67",  
> > "transport\_address" : "inet[/172.29.181.67:9300]",  
> > "hostname" : "01hw400248",  
> > "attributes" : {  
> > "tag" : "es\_node\_67"  
> > },  
> > "indices" : {  
> > "store" : {  
> > "size" : "8gb",  
> > "size\_in\_bytes" : 8615814550  
> > },  
> > "docs" : {  
> > "count" : 1121886,  
> > "deleted" : 65007  
> > },  
> > "indexing" : {  
> > "index\_total" : 0,  
> > "index\_time" : "0s",  
> > "index\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "index\_current" : 0,  
> > "delete\_total" : 0,  
> > "delete\_time" : "0s",  
> > "delete\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "delete\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "get" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "time" : "0s",  
> > "time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "exists\_total" : 0,  
> > "exists\_time" : "0s",  
> > "exists\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "missing\_total" : 0,  
> > "missing\_time" : "0s",  
> > "missing\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "search" : {  
> > "query\_total" : 0,  
> > "query\_time" : "0s",  
> > "query\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "query\_current" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_total" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_time" : "0s",  
> > "fetch\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "fetch\_current" : 0  
> > },  
> > "cache" : {  
> > "field\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "field\_size" : "0b",  
> > "field\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > "filter\_count" : 0,  
> > "filter\_evictions" : 0,  
> > "filter\_size" : "0b",  
> > "filter\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "merges" : {  
> > "current" : 0,  
> > "current\_docs" : 0,  
> > "current\_size" : "0b",  
> > "current\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0,  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0,  
> > "total\_docs" : 0,  
> > "total\_size" : "0b",  
> > "total\_size\_in\_bytes" : 0  
> > },  
> > "refresh" : {  
> > "total" : 171,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > },  
> > "flush" : {  
> > "total" : 0,  
> > "total\_time" : "0s",  
> > "total\_time\_in\_millis" : 0  
> > }  
> > }  
> > }
> 
> ...
> 
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### Author: ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/15 "2012-04-27T16:12:58Z")

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Hi Sujoy,

Say hi to Ian from Otis please 😉

And about monitoring - we've used SPM for Elasticsearch to see and  
understand behaviour of ES cache(s). Since we can see trend graphs in SPM  
for ES, we can see how the cache size changes when we run queries vs. when  
we use sort vs. when we facet on field X or X and Y, etc. And we can see  
that on the per-node basis, too. So having and seeing this data over time  
also helps with your "Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing  
internally?" question. 🙂

You can also clear FieldCache for a given field and set TTL on it.  
And since you mention using this for tag cloud, normalizing your tags to  
reduce their cardinality will also help. We just did all this stuff for a  
large client (tag normalization, soft cache, cache clearing, adjustment of  
field types to those that use less memory, etc.) and SPM for ES came in  
very handy, if I may say so! 🙂

Otis

On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> anything to monitor explicitly?  
> I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > example query ?
> > 
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał
> > 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > 
> > > Server Configuration:  
> > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > Dual Core processor
> > > 
> > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > 
> > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > if required.
> > > 
> > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "adjectives": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "followers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "following": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "listed": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscribers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "uploads": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "description": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "influencees": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "influencers": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "slope": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "trueReach": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterId": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "author\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "brandTerms": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categories": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "category": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categoryWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "score": {  
> > > "type": "double"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "commentCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "comment Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "dislikes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "retweet Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "contentPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFull": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentType": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "ctmId": {  
> > > "type": "long"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainUrl": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domain\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "findings": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "object"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "notesCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "nouns": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "opinionWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "phrases": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "verbs": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "contentType": "comment",  
> > > "topicId": 9,  
> > > "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> > > "contentId": 34834,  
> > > "ctmId": 73322,  
> > > "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> > > Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> > > settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> > > more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> > > that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> > > will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> > > 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> > > million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> > > increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> > > short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> > > increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> > > settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> > > inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> > > out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> > > asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> > > underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> > > Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> > > 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> > > we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> > > The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\n[http://www.mercurynews.com/](http://www.mercurynews.com/)  
> > > business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> > > we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> > > published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> > > until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> > > result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> > > foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> > > "commentCount": 117,  
> > > "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> > > "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
> > > settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)",
> > > 
> > > ```
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> > > "domainName": null, 
> > > "contentAuthorId": 15614, 
> > > "contentAuthorName": "Hankster", 
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": null, 
> > > "authorKloutDetails": null, 
> > > "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog", 
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif", 
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": 1, 
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog", 
> > > "geographyId": 0, 
> > > "geographyName": "Unknown", 
> > > "languageId": 1, 
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> > > "topicName": "Bank of America", 
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> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000, 
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": 4, 
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": "POS", 
> > > "userSentimentId": 0, 
> > > "userSentimentName": null, 
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": [ 
> > > "Untagged LO" 
> > > ], 
> > > "alertStatus": "assigned", 
> > > "assignedToUserId": 2, 
> > > "assignedToUserName": null, 
> > > "assignedByUserId": 1, 
> > > "assignedByUserName": null, 
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": 0, 
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": null, 
> > > "notesCount": 0, 
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> > > "banks", 
> > > "Bloomberg", 
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> > > "estimates", 
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> > > "net", 
> > > "news", 
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> > > "percent", 
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> > > "result", 
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> > > "Santa", 
> > > "SD", 
> > > "settlement", 
> > > "shadow", 
> > > "term", 
> > > "turn", 
> > > "year", 
> > > "Zillow" 
> > > ], 
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> > > "asked", 
> > > "avoid", 
> > > "bought", 
> > > "completed", 
> > > "expect", 
> > > "expected", 
> > > "get", 
> > > "happen", 
> > > "happened", 
> > > "help", 
> > > "hit", 
> > > "holding", 
> > > "hovering", 
> > > "increase", 
> > > "makes", 
> > > "plan", 
> > > "published", 
> > > "result", 
> > > "stated", 
> > > "staying", 
> > > "suggests" 
> > > ], 
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> > > "clear", 
> > > "finally", 
> > > "good", 
> > > "high", 
> > > "higher", 
> > > "instead", 
> > > "large", 
> > > "last", 
> > > "likely", 
> > > "longer", 
> > > "low", 
> > > "nationally", 
> > > "next", 
> > > "not", 
> > > "positive", 
> > > "quickly", 
> > > "short", 
> > > "so-called", 
> > > "underwater", 
> > > "Unfortunately" 
> > > ], 
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> > > "2012 than 2011", 
> > > "25 percent", 
> > > "25 percent increase", 
> > > "2700 underwater in 92130", 
> > > "3800 underwater in 92127", 
> > > "92130 The good news", 
> > > "asked every month", 
> > > "avoid the headwinds", 
> > > "bank settlement", 
> > > "banks holding off foreclosures", 
> > > "banks more money", 
> > > "Bloomberg and RealtyTrac", 
> > > "bottom line", 
> > > "bought in Santa", 
> > > "bought in Santa Luz", 
> > > "clear the so-called shadow", 
> > > "completed foreclosures", 
> > > "estimates from Realtytrac", 
> > > "foreclosure numbers", 
> > > "foreclosure numbers in 2012", 
> > > "foreclosure pain", 
> > > "foreclosures until settlement", 
> > > "good news", 
> > > "happen this year", 
> > > "happen this year --", 
> > > "happened last year", 
> > > "help the housing", 
> > > "help the housing market", 
> > > "higher foreclosure", 
> > > "higher foreclosure numbers", 
> > > "holding off foreclosures", 
> > > "housing market", 
> > > "increase from 2011", 
> > > "increase The bottom line", 
> > > "instead happen this year", 
> > > "large numbers", 
> > > "last market", 
> > > "last year", 
> > > "longer term", 
> > > "longer term the bank", 
> > > "low numbers", 
> > > "Luz in 2006", 
> > > "makes his payment", 
> > > "million completed foreclosures", 
> > > "mm underwater home", 
> > > "month by his bank", 
> > > "nationally published by Corelogic", 
> > > "net the banks", 
> > > "not avoid the headwinds", 
> > > "numbers in 2012", 
> > > "percent increase", 
> > > "percent increase from 2011", 
> > > "published by Corelogic", 
> > > "Realtytrac and Zillow", 
> > > "result in higher foreclosure", 
> > > "result in more foreclosure", 
> > > "result of banks", 
> > > "sales net", 
> > > "sales net the banks", 
> > > "Santa Luz", 
> > > "Santa Luz in 2006", 
> > > "shadow inventory", 
> > > "short sales", 
> > > "short sales net", 
> > > "short term", 
> > > "so-called shadow", 
> > > "so-called shadow inventory", 
> > > "staying in the house", 
> > > "suggests that short sales", 
> > > "term the bank", 
> > > "term the bank settlement", 
> > > "turn help the housing", 
> > > "underwater home", 
> > > "underwater in 92127", 
> > > "underwater in 92130", 
> > > "underwater in SD", 
> > > "year --" 
> > > ], 
> > > "author_media": "15614 ~~~Hankster~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > > "domain_media": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > > "categories": [ 
> > > { 
> > > "category": "post closing", 
> > > "categoryWords": [ 
> > > "foreclosure", 
> > > "foreclosure" 
> > > ], 
> > > "score": "2.0" 
> > > }, 
> > > { 
> > > "category": "pre buy research", 
> > > "categoryWords": [ 
> > > "term", 
> > > "term" 
> > > ], 
> > > "score": "2.0" 
> > > } 
> > > ], 
> > > "opinionWords": [ 
> > > "positive", 
> > > "good news", 
> > > "expect", 
> > > "unfortunately" 
> > > ], 
> > > "brandTerms": [], 
> > > "findings": [] 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > }

On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> anything to monitor explicitly?  
> I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > example query ?
> > 
> > Regards,  
> > Rafał
> > 
> > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > napisał:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "query" : {  
> > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > },  
> > > "size" : 0,  
> > > "facets" : {  
> > > "tag" : {  
> > > "terms" : {  
> > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > "size" : 100  
> > > },  
> > > "\_cache":false  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > 
> > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > 
> > > Server Configuration:  
> > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > Dual Core processor
> > > 
> > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > 
> > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > if required.
> > > 
> > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "adjectives": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "followers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "following": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "listed": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscribers": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "subscription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "uploads": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "description": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "influencees": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "influencers": {  
> > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "kscore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "slope": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "trueReach": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterId": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "author\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "brandTerms": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categories": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "category": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "categoryWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "score": {  
> > > "type": "double"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "commentCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentAuthorName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": {  
> > > "properties": {  
> > > "comment Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "dislikes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "favourites": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "likes": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "retweet Count": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > },  
> > > "views": {  
> > > "type": "string"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > },  
> > > "contentPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFull": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "standard1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentType": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": {  
> > > "type": "date",  
> > > "index": "analyzed",  
> > > "format": "dateOptionalTime"  
> > > },  
> > > "ctmId": {  
> > > "type": "long"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domainUrl": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "domain\_media": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "findings": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "geographyName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > "type": "object"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "languageName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "notesCount": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "nouns": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > },  
> > > "opinionWords": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "phrases": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "profileName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "topicName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentId": {  
> > > "type": "integer",  
> > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > },  
> > > "userSentimentName": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > },  
> > > "verbs": {  
> > > "type": "string",  
> > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > }  
> > > }  
> > > }
> > > 
> > > A sample of the structure of the data is as follows:
> > > 
> > > {  
> > > "contentType": "comment",  
> > > "topicId": 9,  
> > > "mediaSourceId": 3,  
> > > "contentId": 34834,  
> > > "ctmId": 73322,  
> > > "contentTextFull": "The low numbers nationally published by  
> > > Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures until  
> > > settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will result in  
> > > more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the foreclosures  
> > > that should have happened last year instead happen this year which  
> > > will likely result in higher foreclosure numbers in 2012 than  
> > > 2011.\nThe estimates from Realtytrac and Zillow are hovering around 1  
> > > million completed foreclosures, or REOs, in 2012, a 25 percent  
> > > increase from 2011. \nThe positive is that the data suggests that  
> > > short sales net the banks more money so they should be expected to  
> > > increase\nThe bottom line is that in the longer term the bank  
> > > settlement will help to more quickly clear the so-called shadow  
> > > inventory, which will in turn help the housing market finally bottom  
> > > out once and for all. \nMy buddy who bought in Santa Luz in 2006 is  
> > > asked every month by his bank when he makes his payment on his $1.2mm  
> > > underwater home, do you plan on staying in the house? . Per  
> > > Corelogic, there are still large numbers still underwater in SD\n-  
> > > 3800 underwater in 92127\n- 2700 underwater in 92130\nThe good news is  
> > > we only have one last market to get hit, and expect the high end.  
> > > The $1mm to $2mm has to get hit next.\n[http://www.mercurynews.com/](http://www.mercurynews.com/)  
> > > business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately[http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci\_19899224\nUnfortunately](http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19899224%5CnUnfortunately),  
> > > we can not avoid the headwinds.",  
> > > "contentTextFullHighlighted": null,  
> > > "contentTextSnippetHighlighted": "The low numbers nationally  
> > > published by Corelogic were a result of banks holding off foreclosures  
> > > until settlement. \nAs Bloomberg and RealtyTrac stated. this will  
> > > result in more foreclosure pain in the short term as some of the  
> > > foreclosures that should have happened last year instead happen...",  
> > > "contentJsonMetadata": null,  
> > > "commentCount": 117,  
> > > "contentUrlId": 13535,  
> > > "contentUrlPath": "[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-)  
> > > settlement-renegade/[http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/](http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-settlement-renegade/)",
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > "domainUrl": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com", 
> > > "domainName": null, 
> > > "contentAuthorId": 15614, 
> > > "contentAuthorName": "Hankster", 
> > > "authorJsonMetadata": null, 
> > > "authorKloutDetails": null, 
> > > "mediaSourceName": "Board Reader Blog", 
> > > "mediaSourceIconPath": "BoardReaderBlog.gif", 
> > > "mediaSourceTypeId": 1, 
> > > "mediaSourceTypeName": "Blog", 
> > > "geographyId": 0, 
> > > "geographyName": "Unknown", 
> > > "languageId": 1, 
> > > "languageName": "English", 
> > > "topicName": "Bank of America", 
> > > "profileId": 3, 
> > > "profileName": "USAA_Competition1", 
> > > "contentPublishedTime": 1328798840000, 
> > > "contentUrlPublishedTime": 1329336423000, 
> > > "calculatedSentimentId": 4, 
> > > "calculatedSentimentName": "POS", 
> > > "userSentimentId": 0, 
> > > "userSentimentName": null, 
> > > "listListeningObjectiveName": [ 
> > > "Untagged LO" 
> > > ], 
> > > "alertStatus": "assigned", 
> > > "assignedToUserId": 2, 
> > > "assignedToUserName": null, 
> > > "assignedByUserId": 1, 
> > > "assignedByUserName": null, 
> > > "assignedToDepartmentId": 0, 
> > > "assignedToDepartmentName": null, 
> > > "notesCount": 0, 
> > > "nouns": [ 
> > > "bank", 
> > > "banks", 
> > > "Bloomberg", 
> > > "buddy", 
> > > "Corelogic", 
> > > "data", 
> > > "estimates", 
> > > "foreclosure", 
> > > "foreclosures", 
> > > "headwinds", 
> > > "home", 
> > > "house", 
> > > "housing", 
> > > "increase", 
> > > "inventory", 
> > > "line", 
> > > "Luz", 
> > > "market", 
> > > "mm", 
> > > "money", 
> > > "month", 
> > > "net", 
> > > "news", 
> > > "numbers", 
> > > "pain", 
> > > "payment", 
> > > "percent", 
> > > "Realtytrac", 
> > > "RealtyTrac", 
> > > "REOs", 
> > > "result", 
> > > "sales", 
> > > "Santa", 
> > > "SD", 
> > > "settlement", 
> > > "shadow", 
> > > "term", 
> > > "turn", 
> > > "year", 
> > > "Zillow" 
> > > ], 
> > > "verbs": [ 
> > > "asked", 
> > > "avoid", 
> > > "bought", 
> > > "completed", 
> > > "expect", 
> > > "expected", 
> > > "get", 
> > > "happen", 
> > > "happened", 
> > > "help", 
> > > "hit", 
> > > "holding", 
> > > "hovering", 
> > > "increase", 
> > > "makes", 
> > > "plan", 
> > > "published", 
> > > "result", 
> > > "stated", 
> > > "staying", 
> > > "suggests" 
> > > ], 
> > > "adjectives": [ 
> > > "bottom", 
> > > "clear", 
> > > "finally", 
> > > "good", 
> > > "high", 
> > > "higher", 
> > > "instead", 
> > > "large", 
> > > "last", 
> > > "likely", 
> > > "longer", 
> > > "low", 
> > > "nationally", 
> > > "next", 
> > > "not", 
> > > "positive", 
> > > "quickly", 
> > > "short", 
> > > "so-called", 
> > > "underwater", 
> > > "Unfortunately" 
> > > ], 
> > > "phrases": [ 
> > > "2012 than 2011", 
> > > "25 percent", 
> > > "25 percent increase", 
> > > "2700 underwater in 92130", 
> > > "3800 underwater in 92127", 
> > > "92130 The good news", 
> > > "asked every month", 
> > > "avoid the headwinds", 
> > > "bank settlement", 
> > > "banks holding off foreclosures", 
> > > "banks more money", 
> > > "Bloomberg and RealtyTrac", 
> > > "bottom line", 
> > > "bought in Santa", 
> > > "bought in Santa Luz", 
> > > "clear the so-called shadow", 
> > > "completed foreclosures", 
> > > "estimates from Realtytrac", 
> > > "foreclosure numbers", 
> > > "foreclosure numbers in 2012", 
> > > "foreclosure pain", 
> > > "foreclosures until settlement", 
> > > "good news", 
> > > "happen this year", 
> > > "happen this year --", 
> > > "happened last year", 
> > > "help the housing", 
> > > "help the housing market", 
> > > "higher foreclosure", 
> > > "higher foreclosure numbers", 
> > > "holding off foreclosures", 
> > > "housing market", 
> > > "increase from 2011", 
> > > "increase The bottom line", 
> > > "instead happen this year", 
> > > "large numbers", 
> > > "last market", 
> > > "last year", 
> > > "longer term", 
> > > "longer term the bank", 
> > > "low numbers", 
> > > "Luz in 2006", 
> > > "makes his payment", 
> > > "million completed foreclosures", 
> > > "mm underwater home", 
> > > "month by his bank", 
> > > "nationally published by Corelogic", 
> > > "net the banks", 
> > > "not avoid the headwinds", 
> > > "numbers in 2012", 
> > > "percent increase", 
> > > "percent increase from 2011", 
> > > "published by Corelogic", 
> > > "Realtytrac and Zillow", 
> > > "result in higher foreclosure", 
> > > "result in more foreclosure", 
> > > "result of banks", 
> > > "sales net", 
> > > "sales net the banks", 
> > > "Santa Luz", 
> > > "Santa Luz in 2006", 
> > > "shadow inventory", 
> > > "short sales", 
> > > "short sales net", 
> > > "short term", 
> > > "so-called shadow", 
> > > "so-called shadow inventory", 
> > > "staying in the house", 
> > > "suggests that short sales", 
> > > "term the bank", 
> > > "term the bank settlement", 
> > > "turn help the housing", 
> > > "underwater home", 
> > > "underwater in 92127", 
> > > "underwater in 92130", 
> > > "underwater in SD", 
> > > "year --" 
> > > ], 
> > > "author_media": "15614 ~~~Hankster~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > > "domain_media": "http://www.bubbleinfo.com ~~~null~~~ 1~~~Blog", 
> > > "categories": [ 
> > > { 
> > > "category": "post closing", 
> > > "categoryWords": [ 
> > > "foreclosure", 
> > > "foreclosure" 
> > > ], 
> > > "score": "2.0" 
> > > }, 
> > > { 
> > > "category": "pre buy research", 
> > > "categoryWords": [ 
> > > "term", 
> > > "term" 
> > > ], 
> > > "score": "2.0" 
> > > } 
> > > ], 
> > > "opinionWords": [ 
> > > "positive", 
> > > "good news", 
> > > "expect", 
> > > "unfortunately" 
> > > ], 
> > > "brandTerms": [], 
> > > "findings": [] 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > }

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### Author: ![jagdeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jagdeep](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagdeep)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/16 "2012-04-27T16:17:54Z")

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Hi Otis,

Thanks a lot for your response.  
We will definitely try the approaches you have suggested and update  
you soon.

Thanks and Regards  
Jagdeep

On Apr 27, 9:12 pm, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gospodne...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodne...@gmail.com)  
wrote:

> Hi Sujoy,
> 
> Say hi to Ian from Otis please 😉
> 
> And about monitoring - we've used SPM for Elasticsearch to see and  
> understand behaviour of ES cache(s). Since we can see trend graphs in SPM  
> for ES, we can see how the cache size changes when we run queries vs. when  
> we use sort vs. when we facet on field X or X and Y, etc. And we can see  
> that on the per-node basis, too. So having and seeing this data over time  
> also helps with your "Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing  
> internally?" question. 🙂
> 
> You can also clear FieldCache for a given field and set TTL on it.  
> And since you mention using this for tag cloud, normalizing your tags to  
> reduce their cardinality will also help. We just did all this stuff for a  
> large client (tag normalization, soft cache, cache clearing, adjustment of  
> field types to those that use less memory, etc.) and SPM for ES came in  
> very handy, if I may say so! 🙂
> 
> Otis
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to set  
> > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor cluster  
> > state and health, I didn't find anything like index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > there in the cluster\_state details.
> 
> > Thanks and Regards,
> 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> 
> > > Hello,
> 
> > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > example query ?
> 
> > > Regards,  
> > > Rafał
> 
> > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > napisał:
> 
> > > > Hi,
> 
> > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing data  
> > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> 
> > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword clouds.  
> > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > {  
> > > > "query" : {  
> > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > },  
> > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }
> 
> > > > {  
> > > > "query" : {  
> > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > },  
> > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > }
> 
> > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the nodes  
> > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown in  
> > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive until  
> > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> 
> > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> 
> > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> 
> > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > Dual Core processor
> 
> > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable to  
> > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> 
> > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > > if required.
> 
> > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > > customized standard analyzer)
> 
> > > > {  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "followers": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "following": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "likes": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "listed": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "subscription": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "uploads": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "views": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "description": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "influencees": {  
> > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "influencers": {  
> > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > "properties": {  
> > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > }  
> > > > }  
> > > > },  
> > > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "slope": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "trueReach": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "twitterId": {  
> > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > },  
> > > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > > "type":
> 
> ...
> 
> read more »

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/17 "2012-04-28T18:01:45Z")

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Hi,

One quick observation, when a single node is maintained for a  
cluster, recovery from OOM is happening normally, though it is not that  
fast.  
But when the cluster is having two nodes, upon OOM the nodes are coming to  
a standstill (no response available, CPU usage minimal, memory blocked to  
maximum allowed size). On shutting down one node, the other is returning to  
responsive state.  
We changed multi-cast discovery to uni-cast, played a little with discovery  
timeout parameters, with no avail.  
What are we missing here, any suggestions?

Thanks and Regards,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 9:47:54 PM UTC+5:30, jagdeep singh wrote:

> Hi Otis,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your response.  
> We will definitely try the approaches you have suggested and update  
> you soon.
> 
> Thanks and Regards  
> Jagdeep
> 
> On Apr 27, 9:12 pm, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gospodne...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodne...@gmail.com)  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Sujoy,
> > 
> > Say hi to Ian from Otis please 😉
> > 
> > And about monitoring - we've used SPM for Elasticsearch to see and  
> > understand behaviour of ES cache(s). Since we can see trend graphs in  
> > SPM  
> > for ES, we can see how the cache size changes when we run queries vs.  
> > when  
> > we use sort vs. when we facet on field X or X and Y, etc. And we can see  
> > that on the per-node basis, too. So having and seeing this data over  
> > time  
> > also helps with your "Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing  
> > internally?" question. 🙂
> > 
> > You can also clear FieldCache for a given field and set TTL on it.  
> > And since you mention using this for tag cloud, normalizing your tags to  
> > reduce their cardinality will also help. We just did all this stuff for  
> > a  
> > large client (tag normalization, soft cache, cache clearing, adjustment  
> > of  
> > field types to those that use less memory, etc.) and SPM for ES came in  
> > very handy, if I may say so! 🙂
> > 
> > Otis
> > 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to  
> > > set  
> > > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor  
> > > cluster  
> > > state and health, I didn't find anything like  
> > > index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > > there in the cluster\_state details.
> > 
> > > Thanks and Regards,
> > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > 
> > > > Hello,
> > 
> > > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > > example query ?
> > 
> > > > Regards,  
> > > > Rafał
> > 
> > > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > > napisał:
> > 
> > > > > Hi,
> > 
> > > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing  
> > > > > data  
> > > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > 
> > > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword  
> > > > > clouds.  
> > > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }
> > 
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }
> > 
> > > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the  
> > > > > nodes  
> > > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a hprof  
> > > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown  
> > > > > in  
> > > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive  
> > > > > until  
> > > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > 
> > > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > 
> > > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > 
> > > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > > Dual Core processor
> > 
> > > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable  
> > > > > to  
> > > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > 
> > > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > > > if required.
> > 
> > > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > > > customized standard analyzer)
> > 
> > > > > {  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "followers": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "following": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "likes": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "listed": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "subscription": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "uploads": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "views": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "description": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "influencees": {  
> > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "influencers": {  
> > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > }  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "slope": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "trueReach": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "twitterId": {  
> > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > },  
> > > > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > > > "type":
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > read more »

---

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/18 "2012-05-01T16:53:22Z")

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We were trying jmeter testing on elasticsearch queries that are being used  
in our application. We ran single user as well as five concurrent user  
tests via jmeter.  
Following are the findings:

1. Regarding the data sample that I posted early in the mail trail, and the  
kind of query I posted, a node of 2GB max heap size is being able to serve  
a query n 100000 data volume. On increasing the data volume, the node is  
facing OOM. _My question is, will dividing the data into more shards, and  
adding more nodes (with same configuration), help me avoid hitting OOM?_

2. I have used two configurations here, one - _multiple nodes in one  
machine, with less heap space each node_. two - _single node in one  
machine, with more heap space_. Which one is better in terms of concurrent  
requests, heavy requests (terms facets), and what is the best shard  
configuration?

3. Regarding recovery from OOM, elasticsearch is showing random behavior.  
We have switched off dumping heap to file. Still sometimes ES recovers from  
OOM, sometimes not. _How to ensure avoidance of OOM from requests only? I  
mean something like when a query is causing a tending to OOM, identifying  
and aborting that query only, without making ES unresponsive._ Does it  
sound absurd?

Regards,

On Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:31:45 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> One quick observation, when a single node is maintained for a  
> cluster, recovery from OOM is happening normally, though it is not that  
> fast.  
> But when the cluster is having two nodes, upon OOM the nodes are coming to  
> a standstill (no response available, CPU usage minimal, memory blocked to  
> maximum allowed size). On shutting down one node, the other is returning to  
> responsive state.  
> We changed multi-cast discovery to uni-cast, played a little with  
> discovery timeout parameters, with no avail.  
> What are we missing here, any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 9:47:54 PM UTC+5:30, jagdeep singh wrote:
> 
> > Hi Otis,
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for your response.  
> > We will definitely try the approaches you have suggested and update  
> > you soon.
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards  
> > Jagdeep
> > 
> > On Apr 27, 9:12 pm, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gospodne...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodne...@gmail.com)  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Sujoy,
> > > 
> > > Say hi to Ian from Otis please 😉
> > > 
> > > And about monitoring - we've used SPM for Elasticsearch to see and  
> > > understand behaviour of ES cache(s). Since we can see trend graphs in  
> > > SPM  
> > > for ES, we can see how the cache size changes when we run queries vs.  
> > > when  
> > > we use sort vs. when we facet on field X or X and Y, etc. And we can  
> > > see  
> > > that on the per-node basis, too. So having and seeing this data over  
> > > time  
> > > also helps with your "Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing  
> > > internally?" question. 🙂
> > > 
> > > You can also clear FieldCache for a given field and set TTL on it.  
> > > And since you mention using this for tag cloud, normalizing your tags to  
> > > reduce their cardinality will also help. We just did all this stuff  
> > > for a  
> > > large client (tag normalization, soft cache, cache clearing, adjustment  
> > > of  
> > > field types to those that use less memory, etc.) and SPM for ES came in  
> > > very handy, if I may say so! 🙂
> > > 
> > > Otis
> > > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to  
> > > > set  
> > > > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > > > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor  
> > > > cluster  
> > > > state and health, I didn't find anything like  
> > > > index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > > > there in the cluster\_state details.
> > > 
> > > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > 
> > > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > > > example query ?
> > > 
> > > > > Regards,  
> > > > > Rafał
> > > 
> > > > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > > > napisał:
> > > 
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing  
> > > > > > data  
> > > > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword  
> > > > > > clouds.  
> > > > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }
> > > 
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }
> > > 
> > > > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the  
> > > > > > nodes  
> > > > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a  
> > > > > > hprof  
> > > > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown  
> > > > > > in  
> > > > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive  
> > > > > > until  
> > > > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > 
> > > > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > 
> > > > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > 
> > > > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > > > Dual Core processor
> > > 
> > > > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable  
> > > > > > to  
> > > > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > 
> > > > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > > > > if required.
> > > 
> > > > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > > > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > 
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "followers": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "following": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "likes": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "listed": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "subscription": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "uploads": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "views": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "description": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "influencees": {  
> > > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "influencers": {  
> > > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "slope": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "trueReach": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "twitterId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > > > > "type":
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > read more »

---

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/19 "2012-05-01T17:54:13Z")

</div>

Adding one more query ....

1. Our ES installation has some 50 indexes in total. After a shutdown, it  
typically takes some 5-10 minutes to get the green state, and before that,  
queries tend to result in UnavailableShardException. _Can we control or  
speed up the recovery of some indexes on priority than others._

Thanks,

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:23:22 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> We were trying jmeter testing on elasticsearch queries that are being used  
> in our application. We ran single user as well as five concurrent user  
> tests via jmeter.  
> Following are the findings:
> 
> 1. Regarding the data sample that I posted early in the mail trail, and  
> the kind of query I posted, a node of 2GB max heap size is being able to  
> serve a query n 100000 data volume. On increasing the data volume, the node  
> is facing OOM. \*My question is, will dividing the data into more shards,  
> and adding more nodes (with same configuration), help me avoid hitting OOM?
> 
> - 
> 
> 1. I have used two configurations here, one - _multiple nodes in one  
> machine, with less heap space each node_. two - _single node in one  
> machine, with more heap space_. Which one is better in terms of  
> concurrent requests, heavy requests (terms facets), and what is the best  
> shard configuration?
> 
> 2. Regarding recovery from OOM, elasticsearch is showing random behavior.  
> We have switched off dumping heap to file. Still sometimes ES recovers from  
> OOM, sometimes not. _How to ensure avoidance of OOM from requests only? I  
> mean something like when a query is causing a tending to OOM, identifying  
> and aborting that query only, without making ES unresponsive._ Does it  
> sound absurd?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> On Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:31:45 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One quick observation, when a single node is maintained for a  
> > cluster, recovery from OOM is happening normally, though it is not that  
> > fast.  
> > But when the cluster is having two nodes, upon OOM the nodes are coming  
> > to a standstill (no response available, CPU usage minimal, memory blocked  
> > to maximum allowed size). On shutting down one node, the other is returning  
> > to responsive state.  
> > We changed multi-cast discovery to uni-cast, played a little with  
> > discovery timeout parameters, with no avail.  
> > What are we missing here, any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > 
> > On Friday, April 27, 2012 9:47:54 PM UTC+5:30, jagdeep singh wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Otis,
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot for your response.  
> > > We will definitely try the approaches you have suggested and update  
> > > you soon.
> > > 
> > > Thanks and Regards  
> > > Jagdeep
> > > 
> > > On Apr 27, 9:12 pm, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gospodne...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodne...@gmail.com)  
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Sujoy,
> > > > 
> > > > Say hi to Ian from Otis please 😉
> > > > 
> > > > And about monitoring - we've used SPM for Elasticsearch to see and  
> > > > understand behaviour of ES cache(s). Since we can see trend graphs in  
> > > > SPM  
> > > > for ES, we can see how the cache size changes when we run queries vs.  
> > > > when  
> > > > we use sort vs. when we facet on field X or X and Y, etc. And we can  
> > > > see  
> > > > that on the per-node basis, too. So having and seeing this data over  
> > > > time  
> > > > also helps with your "Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing  
> > > > internally?" question. 🙂
> > > > 
> > > > You can also clear FieldCache for a given field and set TTL on it.  
> > > > And since you mention using this for tag cloud, normalizing your tags  
> > > > to  
> > > > reduce their cardinality will also help. We just did all this stuff  
> > > > for a  
> > > > large client (tag normalization, soft cache, cache clearing,  
> > > > adjustment of  
> > > > field types to those that use less memory, etc.) and SPM for ES came in  
> > > > very handy, if I may say so! 🙂
> > > > 
> > > > Otis
> > > > 
> > > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have  
> > > > > to set  
> > > > > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > > > > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor  
> > > > > cluster  
> > > > > state and health, I didn't find anything like  
> > > > > index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > > > > there in the cluster\_state details.
> > > > 
> > > > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending  
> > > > > > the  
> > > > > > example query ?
> > > > 
> > > > > > Regards,  
> > > > > > Rafał
> > > > 
> > > > > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > > > > napisał:
> > > > 
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing  
> > > > > > > data  
> > > > > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword  
> > > > > > > clouds.  
> > > > > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > > > > {  
> > > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > > > > {  
> > > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space  
> > > > > > > shortage,  
> > > > > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the  
> > > > > > > nodes  
> > > > > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a  
> > > > > > > hprof  
> > > > > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as  
> > > > > > > shown in  
> > > > > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive  
> > > > > > > until  
> > > > > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > > > > Dual Core processor
> > > > 
> > > > > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was  
> > > > > > > unable to  
> > > > > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and  
> > > > > > > request  
> > > > > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different  
> > > > > > > approach  
> > > > > > > if required.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is  
> > > > > > > a  
> > > > > > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > > 
> > > > > > > {  
> > > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "followers": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "following": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "likes": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "listed": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "subscription": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "uploads": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "views": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "authorKloutDetails": {  
> > > > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > > "amplificationScore": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "authorKloutDetailsFound": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "description": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "influencees": {  
> > > > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "influencers": {  
> > > > > > > "dynamic": "true",  
> > > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > > "kscore": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "twitter\_screen\_name": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > }  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "kloutClass": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "kloutClassDescription": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "kloutScore": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "kloutScoreDescription": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "kloutTopic": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "slope": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "trueReach": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "twitterId": {  
> > > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > > },  
> > > > > > > "twitterScreenName": {  
> > > > > > > "type":
> > > > 
> > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > read more »

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### Author: ![sujoysett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-19-2-heap-space-shortage-becoming-unresponsive-and-not-recovering-or-releasing-memory/7488/20 "2012-05-01T17:56:59Z")

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We were trying jmeter testing on elasticsearch queries that are being used  
in our application. We ran single user as well as five concurrent user  
tests via jmeter.  
Following are the findings:

1. Regarding the data sample that I posted early in the mail trail, and the  
kind of query I posted, a node of 2GB max heap size is being able to serve  
a query n 100000 data volume. On increasing the data volume, the node is  
facing OOM. _My question is, will dividing the data into more shards, and  
adding more nodes (with same configuration), help me avoid hitting OOM?_

2. I have used two configurations here, one - _multiple nodes in one  
machine, with less heap space each node_. two - _single node in one  
machine, with more heap space_. Which one is better in terms of concurrent  
requests, heavy requests (terms facets), and what is the best shard  
configuration?

3. Regarding recovery from OOM, elasticsearch is showing random behavior.  
We have switched off dumping heap to file. Still sometimes ES recovers from  
OOM, sometimes not. _How to ensure avoidance of OOM from requests only? I  
mean something like when a query is causing a tending to OOM, identifying  
and aborting that query only, without making ES unresponsive._ Does it  
sound absurd?

4. Our ES installation has some 50 indexes in total. After a shutdown, it  
typically takes some 5-10 minutes to get the green state, and before that,  
queries tend to result in UnavailableShardException. _Can we control or  
speed up the recovery of some indexes on priority than others._

Thanks,

On Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:31:45 PM UTC+5:30, Sujoy Sett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> One quick observation, when a single node is maintained for a  
> cluster, recovery from OOM is happening normally, though it is not that  
> fast.  
> But when the cluster is having two nodes, upon OOM the nodes are coming to  
> a standstill (no response available, CPU usage minimal, memory blocked to  
> maximum allowed size). On shutting down one node, the other is returning to  
> responsive state.  
> We changed multi-cast discovery to uni-cast, played a little with  
> discovery timeout parameters, with no avail.  
> What are we missing here, any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 9:47:54 PM UTC+5:30, jagdeep singh wrote:
> 
> > Hi Otis,
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for your response.  
> > We will definitely try the approaches you have suggested and update  
> > you soon.
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards  
> > Jagdeep
> > 
> > On Apr 27, 9:12 pm, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gospodne...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodne...@gmail.com)  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Sujoy,
> > > 
> > > Say hi to Ian from Otis please 😉
> > > 
> > > And about monitoring - we've used SPM for Elasticsearch to see and  
> > > understand behaviour of ES cache(s). Since we can see trend graphs in  
> > > SPM  
> > > for ES, we can see how the cache size changes when we run queries vs.  
> > > when  
> > > we use sort vs. when we facet on field X or X and Y, etc. And we can  
> > > see  
> > > that on the per-node basis, too. So having and seeing this data over  
> > > time  
> > > also helps with your "Just out of inquisitiveness, what is ES doing  
> > > internally?" question. 🙂
> > > 
> > > You can also clear FieldCache for a given field and set TTL on it.  
> > > And since you mention using this for tag cloud, normalizing your tags to  
> > > reduce their cardinality will also help. We just did all this stuff  
> > > for a  
> > > large client (tag normalization, soft cache, cache clearing, adjustment  
> > > of  
> > > field types to those that use less memory, etc.) and SPM for ES came in  
> > > very handy, if I may say so! 🙂
> > > 
> > > Otis
> > > 
> > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 6:42:35 AM UTC-4, Sujoy Sett wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > Can u please explain how to check the field data cache ? Do I have to  
> > > > set  
> > > > anything to monitor explicitly?  
> > > > I often use the mobz-elasticsearch-head-24935c4 plugin to monitor  
> > > > cluster  
> > > > state and health, I didn't find anything like  
> > > > index.cache.field.max\_size  
> > > > there in the cluster\_state details.
> > > 
> > > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > 
> > > > On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rafał Kuć wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > > > Did you look at the size of the field data cache after sending the  
> > > > > example query ?
> > > 
> > > > > Regards,  
> > > > > Rafał
> > > 
> > > > > W dniu piątek, 27 kwietnia 2012 12:15:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Sujoy Sett  
> > > > > napisał:
> > > 
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > > > We have been using elasticsearch 0.19.2 for storing and analyzing  
> > > > > > data  
> > > > > > from social media blogs and forums. The data volume is going up to  
> > > > > > 500000 documents per index, and size of this volume of data in  
> > > > > > Elasticsearch index is going up to 3 GB per index per node (all  
> > > > > > shards). We always maintain the number of replicas 1 less than the  
> > > > > > total number of nodes to ensure that a copy of all shards should  
> > > > > > reside on every node at any instant. The number of shards are  
> > > > > > generally 10 for the size of indexes we mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > > > > We try different queries on these data for advanced visualization  
> > > > > > purpose, and mainly facets for showing trend charts or keyword  
> > > > > > clouds.  
> > > > > > Following are some example of the query we execute:  
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > > "field" : "nouns",  
> > > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }
> > > 
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "query" : {  
> > > > > > "match\_all" : { }  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "size" : 0,  
> > > > > > "facets" : {  
> > > > > > "tag" : {  
> > > > > > "terms" : {  
> > > > > > "field" : "phrases",  
> > > > > > "size" : 100  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "\_cache":false  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }  
> > > > > > }
> > > 
> > > > > > While executing such queries we often encounter heap space shortage,  
> > > > > > and the nodes becomes unresponsive. Our main concern is that the  
> > > > > > nodes  
> > > > > > do not recover to normal state even after dumping the heap to a  
> > > > > > hprof  
> > > > > > file. The node still consumes the maximum allocated memory as shown  
> > > > > > in  
> > > > > > task manager java.exe process, and the nodes remain unresponsive  
> > > > > > until  
> > > > > > we manually kill and restart them.
> > > 
> > > > > > ES Configuration 1:  
> > > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > > 2 Nodes, one on each physical server  
> > > > > > Max heap size 6GB per node.  
> > > > > > 10 shards, 1 replica.
> > > 
> > > > > > ES Configuration 2:  
> > > > > > Elasticsearch Version 0.19.2  
> > > > > > 6 Nodes, three on each physical server  
> > > > > > Max heap size 2GB per node.  
> > > > > > 10 shards, 5 replica.
> > > 
> > > > > > Server Configuration:  
> > > > > > Windows 7 64 bit  
> > > > > > 64 bit JVM  
> > > > > > 8 GB pysical memory  
> > > > > > Dual Core processor
> > > 
> > > > > > For both the configuration mentioned above Elasticsearch was unable  
> > > > > > to  
> > > > > > respond to the facet queries mentioned above, it was also unable to  
> > > > > > recover when a query failed due to heap space shortage.
> > > 
> > > > > > We are facing this issue in our production environments, and request  
> > > > > > you to please suggest a better configuration or a different approach  
> > > > > > if required.
> > > 
> > > > > > The mapping of the data is we use is as follows:  
> > > > > > (keyword1 is a customized keyword analyzer, similarly standard1 is a  
> > > > > > customized standard analyzer)
> > > 
> > > > > > {  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "adjectives": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "stop2"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "alertStatus": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedByUserId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedByUserName": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToDepartmentId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToDepartmentName": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToUserId": {  
> > > > > > "type": "integer",  
> > > > > > "index": "analyzed"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "assignedToUserName": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string",  
> > > > > > "analyzer": "keyword1"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "authorJsonMetadata": {  
> > > > > > "properties": {  
> > > > > > "favourites": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "followers": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "following": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "likes": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "listed": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
> > > > > > "subscribers": {  
> > > > > > "type": "string"  
> > > > > > },  
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> > > 
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