# Elasticsearch node ram.percent at 100%

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-ram-percent-at-100/346022>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 30, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-ram-percent-at-100/346022 "2023-10-30T10:52:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahmathm1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rahmathm1/32/127034_2.png) [@rahmathm1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahmathm1)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-ram-percent-at-100/346022/1 "2023-10-30T10:52:05Z")

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Hi, everyone,

We have a 6x6 setup of ES deployed on Kubernetes.

When we check node memory statistics, we can see that data nodes are using 100% of ram allocated to them.

Below are the resource limits for data nodes:

limits:  
cpu: 4  
memory: 60Gi  
requests:  
cpu: 1  
memory: 1Gi

/\_cat/nodes?v=true

 ![20231030_161705](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/6/56aee0162a27b52b82638759f9746aa55ddf3eed.jpeg)

Does anyone one know why nodes use 100% RAM always.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-ram-percent-at-100/346022/2 "2023-10-30T10:57:33Z")

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Have a look at [this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastisearch-consuming-above-90-ram-memory-continuously/345812/3).

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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:** [November 27, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-ram-percent-at-100/346022/3 "2023-11-27T10:58:26Z")

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