# Elasticsearch 5.2.x and memory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-x-and-memory/80771>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 31, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-x-and-memory/80771 "2017-03-31T04:02:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![somerandomguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@somerandomguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/somerandomguy)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-x-and-memory/80771/1 "2017-03-31T04:02:37Z")

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Hi.

Does ES 5.2 still have a limit on memory that the node can have like 2.x use to or that has been removed now?

thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-x-and-memory/80771/2 "2017-03-31T04:38:59Z")

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You can have as much memory as you want on a node.  
We still only recommend having \<32GB for the JVM though.

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**Author:** ![somerandomguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@somerandomguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/somerandomguy)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-x-and-memory/80771/3 "2017-04-01T15:10:03Z")

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Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-x-and-memory/80771/4 "2017-04-29T15:10:05Z")

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