# Engineer 1 training lab fails to allocate memory **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Training\ **Created:** [October 8, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/engineer-1-training-lab-fails-to-allocate-memory/251448 "2020-10-08T13:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JAG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@JAG1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JAG1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/engineer-1-training-lab-fails-to-allocate-memory/251448/1 "2020-10-08T13:27:46Z")
```auto Engineer 1 training fails to allocate memory after instructions request memory to be changed. http://3.127.223.160/instructions/labs.html#_lab_1_1_elastic_stack_overview fails with a Run Time Expectation error insufficient memory top - 17:59:44 up 39 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 Tasks: 16 total, 1 running, 15 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 8173716 total, 5857124 free, 239964 used, 2076628 buff/cache KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 7603228 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 20 0 11688 2608 2412 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 /bin/bash /root/startup.sh 12 root 20 0 113668 11636 3100 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.32 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/supervisord -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.+ 16 root 20 0 11688 2608 2428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /bin/bash /root/start-scripts/99-bash.sh 17 root 20 0 11828 2904 2640 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bash -l 33 root 20 0 112872 2920 1884 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/sshd 40 root 20 0 117080 7976 6852 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd: elastic [priv] 42 elastic 20 0 117080 3764 2640 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 sshd: elastic@pts/1 43 elastic 20 0 15260 3524 3128 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 -bash 68 root 20 0 117080 7884 6776 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd: elastic [priv] 70 elastic 20 0 117080 3484 2376 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 sshd: elastic@pts/2 71 elastic 20 0 15260 3376 3112 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 -bash 90 elastic 20 0 78500 7916 6952 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 ssh server1 91 root 20 0 112872 7884 6800 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd: elastic [priv] 93 elastic 20 0 112872 3828 2744 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 sshd: elastic@pts/3 94 elastic 20 0 15260 3420 3028 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 -bash 609 elastic 20 0 59632 4308 3752 R 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 top [elastic@server1 ~]$ uname -a Linux server1 4.4.0-1111-aws #123-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 4 02:03:15 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [elastic@server1 ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8173716 kB MemFree: 5857860 kB MemAvailable: 7603976 kB Buffers: 94500 kB Cached: 1838948 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1017892 kB Inactive: 1089552 kB Active(anon): 179896 kB Inactive(anon): 17420 kB Active(file): 837996 kB Inactive(file): 1072132 kB Unevictable: 3648 kB Mlocked: 3652 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 32 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 177648 kB Mapped: 178104 kB Shmem: 20892 kB Slab: 143152 kB SReclaimable: 108824 kB SUnreclaim: 34328 kB KernelStack: 4928 kB PageTables: 8960 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 4086856 kB Committed_AS: 1233964 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 86016 kB DirectMap2M: 8302592 kB [elastic@server1 ~]$ vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 1 0 0 5857380 94500 1982136 0 0 195 244 97 124 3 1 96 0 0 [elastic@server1 ~]$ [elastic@server1 ~]$ [elastic@server1 logs]$ cat hs_err_pid600.log # # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue. # Native memory allocation (mmap) failed to map 549581357056 bytes for committing reserved memory. # Possible reasons: # The system is out of physical RAM or swap space # Possible solutions: # Reduce memory load on the system # Increase physical memory or swap space # Check if swap backing store is full # Decrease Java heap size (-Xmx/-Xms) # Decrease number of Java threads # Decrease Java thread stack sizes (-Xss) # Set larger code cache with -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize= # This output file may be truncated or incomplete. # # Out of Memory Error (os_linux.cpp:2766), pid=600, tid=0x00007f27cf733700 # # JRE version: (8.0_201-b09) (build ) # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.201-b09 mixed mode linux-amd64 ) # Core dump written. Default location: /home/elastic/elasticsearch-7.3.1/core or core.600 # time: Wed Oct 7 17:47:47 2020 timezone: UTC elapsed time: 0 seconds (0d 0h 0m 0s) ``` ![error-1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/9/09db5a9fd5642d40b5e6edf9b8386c61f5e750e9.png) ![error-2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/5/e59df3816fe13a587d736206a3e3bf69543fbc30.png) ![error-3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/5/054217ac25906ccf065303afa75378085b09ed6e.png) ---
**Author:** ![pmusa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pmusa/32/3498_2.png) [@pmusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmusa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/engineer-1-training-lab-fails-to-allocate-memory/251448/2 "2020-10-08T13:42:16Z")
You are using `g` instead of `m`. Therefore, you get an error that the machines does not have 512 gigabytes of memory 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JAG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@JAG1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JAG1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/engineer-1-training-lab-fails-to-allocate-memory/251448/3 "2020-10-08T13:44:39Z")
That would do it --- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/engineer-1-training-lab-fails-to-allocate-memory/251448/4 "2020-11-07T13:44:56Z")
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