# Elasticsearch goes to periodically shutdown

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 23, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827 "2012-05-23T19:43:38Z")
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### Author: ![Anton\_Swood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Anton\_Swood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anton_Swood)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827/1 "2012-05-23T19:43:38Z")

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Hello all.

We had next problem. Periodically elasticsearch write next in log and  
shutdown:  
[2012-05-23 23:53:24,099][INFO][discovery] [Mary Walker]  
elasticsearch/7qxiK8tFRaCbw5B81bo\_iA  
[2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][http] [Mary Walker]  
bound\_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9200]}, publish\_address  
{inet[/XX.XX.XX.XX:9200]}  
[2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
{0.19.3}[8971]: started  
[2012-05-23 23:54:29,133][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
{0.19.3}[8971]: stopping ...  
[2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
{0.19.3}[8971]: stopped  
[2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
{0.19.3}[8971]: closing ...  
[2012-05-23 23:54:29,288][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
{0.19.3}[8971]: closed

Why he doing it?

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### Author: ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827/2 "2012-05-25T20:41:31Z")

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It won't shutdown on its own, something is closing it..., how are you  
running the elasticsearch process?

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Anton Swood [fotofors@gmail.com](mailto:fotofors@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> We had next problem. Periodically elasticsearch write next in log and  
> shutdown:  
> [2012-05-23 23:53:24,099][INFO][discovery] [Mary Walker]  
> elasticsearch/7qxiK8tFRaCbw5B81bo\_iA  
> [2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][http] [Mary Walker]  
> bound\_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9200]}, publish\_address  
> {inet[/XX.XX.XX.XX:9200]}  
> [2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> {0.19.3}[8971]: started  
> [2012-05-23 23:54:29,133][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> {0.19.3}[8971]: stopping ...  
> [2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> {0.19.3}[8971]: stopped  
> [2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> {0.19.3}[8971]: closing ...  
> [2012-05-23 23:54:29,288][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> {0.19.3}[8971]: closed
> 
> Why he doing it?

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### Author: ![Anton\_Swood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Anton\_Swood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anton_Swood)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827/3 "2012-05-26T10:31:41Z")

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Hello.

I running it next command:  
/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -f -Des.max-open-files=true -Xmx2g  
-Xms2g -Des.index.storage.type=memory &

Server have 6 GB RAM.

суббота, 26 мая 2012 г., 0:41:31 UTC+4 пользователь kimchy написал:

> It won't shutdown on its own, something is closing it..., how are you  
> running the elasticsearch process?
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Anton Swood [fotofors@gmail.com](mailto:fotofors@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hello all.
> > 
> > We had next problem. Periodically elasticsearch write next in log and  
> > shutdown:  
> > [2012-05-23 23:53:24,099][INFO][discovery] [Mary Walker]  
> > elasticsearch/7qxiK8tFRaCbw5B81bo\_iA  
> > [2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][http] [Mary Walker]  
> > bound\_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9200]}, publish\_address  
> > {inet[/XX.XX.XX.XX:9200]}  
> > [2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> > {0.19.3}[8971]: started  
> > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,133][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> > {0.19.3}[8971]: stopping ...  
> > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> > {0.19.3}[8971]: stopped  
> > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary Walker]  
> > {0.19.3}[8971]: closing ...  
> > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,288][INFO][node] [Mary  
> > Walker] {0.19.3}[8971]: closed
> > 
> > Why he doing it?

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### Author: ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827/4 "2012-05-26T15:00:54Z")

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Then something is killing it (sending it a kill command)..... Also, the  
setting to set the index in memory is index.store.type, though you probably  
don't want it...

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Anton Swood [fotofors@gmail.com](mailto:fotofors@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I running it next command:  
> /opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -f -Des.max-open-files=true -Xmx2g  
> -Xms2g -Des.index.storage.type=memory &
> 
> Server have 6 GB RAM.
> 
> суббота, 26 мая 2012 г., 0:41:31 UTC+4 пользователь kimchy написал:
> 
> > It won't shutdown on its own, something is closing it..., how are you  
> > running the elasticsearch process?
> > 
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Anton Swood [fotofors@gmail.com](mailto:fotofors@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello all.
> > > 
> > > We had next problem. Periodically elasticsearch write next in log and  
> > > shutdown:  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:53:24,099][INFO][discovery] [Mary  
> > > Walker] elasticsearch/\*\*7qxiK8tFRaCbw5B81bo\_iA  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][http] [Mary  
> > > Walker] bound\_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9200]}, publish\_address  
> > > {inet[/XX.XX.XX.XX:9200]}  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:53:24,101][INFO][node] [Mary  
> > > Walker] {0.19.3}[8971]: started  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,133][INFO][node] [Mary  
> > > Walker] {0.19.3}[8971]: stopping ...  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary  
> > > Walker] {0.19.3}[8971]: stopped  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,281][INFO][node] [Mary  
> > > Walker] {0.19.3}[8971]: closing ...  
> > > [2012-05-23 23:54:29,288][INFO][node] [Mary  
> > > Walker] {0.19.3}[8971]: closed
> > > 
> > > Why he doing it?

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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: [July 6, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-goes-to-periodically-shutdown/7827/5 "2017-07-06T03:26:49Z")

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