# Elasticsearch hangs during initialization
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hangs-during-initialization/171971
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hangs-during-initialization/171971 "2019-03-12T14:13:33Z")
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### Author:  [@sss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sss)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hangs-during-initialization/171971/1 "2019-03-12T14:13:34Z")
Hi ,
Elasticsearch startup hangs and doesnt proceed further even if it was given 8 gb heap.
Version of Elasticsearch used in 2.4.0 and Operating system is Linux
Here is the log that got generated so far before it get stuck
2019-03-11 17:37:38,099 [il INITIALIZE\_SEARCH] [STANDARD] [] [] ( org.elasticsearch.node) INFO - [22C38D9EE989DB878B3D3A552B5DD6F6] version[2.4.0], pid[1355], build[0151b36/2016-09-23T11:28:10Z]
2019-03-11 17:37:38,099 [il INITIALIZE\_SEARCH] [STANDARD] [] [] ( org.elasticsearch.node) INFO - [22C38D9EE989DB878B3D3A552B5DD6F6] initializing ...
2019-03-11 17:37:39,855 [il INITIALIZE\_SEARCH] [STANDARD] [] [] ( org.elasticsearch.plugins) INFO - [22C38D9EE989DB878B3D3A552B5DD6F6] modules , plugins , sites
2019-03-11 17:37:47,620 [il INITIALIZE\_SEARCH] [STANDARD] [] [] ( org.elasticsearch.env) INFO - [22C38D9EE989DB878B3D3A552B5DD6F6] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/shared (C: net usable\_space [521.3gb], net total\_space [1000gb], spins? [possibly], types [nfs]
2019-03-11 17:37:47,620 [il INITIALIZE\_SEARCH] [STANDARD] [] [] ( org.elasticsearch.env) INFO - [22C38D9EE989DB878B3D3A552B5DD6F6] heap size [8gb], compressed ordinary object pointers [unknown]
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hangs-during-initialization/171971/2 "2019-04-09T14:13:40Z")
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