# Elasticsearch Heap Size for Tribe Node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-heap-size-for-tribe-node/73234>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-heap-size-for-tribe-node/73234 "2017-01-30T15:52:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shane\_Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shane\_Daniel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shane_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-heap-size-for-tribe-node/73234/1 "2017-01-30T15:52:17Z")

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What is the recommended Elasticsearch heap size (or guidelines) for a tribe node?

What are the underlining factors? Number of nodes? Data Volume?

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**Author:** ![JKhondhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@JKhondhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JKhondhu)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-heap-size-for-tribe-node/73234/2 "2017-01-30T16:21:07Z")

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Tribe nodes are "meta" clients, they are to be CPU intensive, thus to deal with all the computation, and how much depends on the queries that will be ran.

They will not need anymore than the \<32GB heap as mentioned in our guidelines: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/heap-sizing.html#compressed\_oops](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/heap-sizing.html#compressed_oops)

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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:** [February 27, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-heap-size-for-tribe-node/73234/3 "2017-02-27T16:21:46Z")

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