# ES 5.6.4: offheap memory keeps growing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-6-4-offheap-memory-keeps-growing/126760>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-6-4-offheap-memory-keeps-growing/126760 "2018-04-04T14:33:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![hokiegeek2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hokiegeek2/32/11076_2.png) [@hokiegeek2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hokiegeek2)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-6-4-offheap-memory-keeps-growing/126760/1 "2018-04-04T14:33:35Z")

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Hi Everyone,

Has anyone else encountered the issue of off-heap memory growing unbounded? I am running ES in Dockers on Marathon/Mesos and the off-heap memory keeps growing until Mesos kills the Docker.

Any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

--John

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-6-4-offheap-memory-keeps-growing/126760/2 "2018-04-17T10:46:50Z")

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Duplicate of [Off-heap memory leak?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/off-heap-memory-leak/128202) hence closing.

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-6-4-offheap-memory-keeps-growing/126760/3 "2018-04-17T10:46:53Z")

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