# ES running out of memory for bulk import
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 3, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630 "2013-07-03T01:53:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jerkywez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerkywez)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630/1 "2013-07-03T01:53:21Z")
Hi,
Im currently doing a large bulk import from mongodb into ES, the ES process
keeps on dying after a while, im assuming its running out of memory.
Ive got the following memory settings:
-Xms=512m
-Xmx=1500m
The logs are printing out this before it dies:
[2013-07-02 21:42:19,792][INFO][monitor.jvm] [Landslide]
[gc][ParNew][495][1351] duration [917ms], collections [1]/[1.4s], total
[917ms]/[1.1m], memory [405.2mb]-\>[375mb]/[1.4gb], all\_pools {[Code Cache]
[6mb]-\>[6mb]/[48mb]}{[Par Eden Space] [38.8mb]-\>[3.4mb]/[133.1mb]}{[Par
Survivor Space] [7mb]-\>[6.1mb]/[16.6mb]}{[CMS Old Gen]
[359.5mb]-\>[365.4mb]/[1.3gb]}{[CMS Perm Gen] [41.3mb]-\>[41.3mb]/[166mb]}
Can anyone please help with this?
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### Author:  [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630/2 "2013-07-03T05:15:47Z")
Hi,
The short "answer" is: it's 2013, can you give it a bigger Xmx? (and make
Xms that same value)
## Otis
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:53:21 PM UTC-4, Wesley Archbell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im currently doing a large bulk import from mongodb into ES, the ES
> process keeps on dying after a while, im assuming its running out of memory.
>
> Ive got the following memory settings:
> -Xms=512m
> -Xmx=1500m
>
> The logs are printing out this before it dies:
>
> [2013-07-02 21:42:19,792][INFO][monitor.jvm] [Landslide]
> [gc][ParNew][495][1351] duration [917ms], collections [1]/[1.4s], total
> [917ms]/[1.1m], memory [405.2mb]-\>[375mb]/[1.4gb], all\_pools {[Code Cache]
> [6mb]-\>[6mb]/[48mb]}{[Par Eden Space] [38.8mb]-\>[3.4mb]/[133.1mb]}{[Par
> Survivor Space] [7mb]-\>[6.1mb]/[16.6mb]}{[CMS Old Gen]
> [359.5mb]-\>[365.4mb]/[1.3gb]}{[CMS Perm Gen] [41.3mb]-\>[41.3mb]/[166mb]}
>
> Can anyone please help with this?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630/3 "2013-07-03T07:01:02Z")
I add to Otis's answer that you could also decrease the number of docs per Bulk.
How many docs do you send each time?
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Le 3 juil. 2013 à 07:15, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com) a écrit :
Hi,
The short "answer" is: it's 2013, can you give it a bigger Xmx? (and make Xms that same value)
## Otis
Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)
On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:53:21 PM UTC-4, Wesley Archbell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im currently doing a large bulk import from mongodb into ES, the ES process keeps on dying after a while, im assuming its running out of memory.
>
> Ive got the following memory settings:
> -Xms=512m
> -Xmx=1500m
>
> The logs are printing out this before it dies:
>
> [2013-07-02 21:42:19,792][INFO][monitor.jvm] [Landslide] [gc][ParNew][495][1351] duration [917ms], collections [1]/[1.4s], total [917ms]/[1.1m], memory [405.2mb]-\>[375mb]/[1.4gb], all\_pools {[Code Cache] [6mb]-\>[6mb]/[48mb]}{[Par Eden Space] [38.8mb]-\>[3.4mb]/[133.1mb]}{[Par Survivor Space] [7mb]-\>[6.1mb]/[16.6mb]}{[CMS Old Gen] [359.5mb]-\>[365.4mb]/[1.3gb]}{[CMS Perm Gen] [41.3mb]-\>[41.3mb]/[166mb]}
>
> Can anyone please help with this?
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### Author:  [@jerkywez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerkywez)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630/4 "2013-07-10T06:05:31Z")
Yep all good now, the box only had 912MB... made it 4Gb and gave ES 2Gb all
good now.
On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 3:15:47 PM UTC+10, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The short "answer" is: it's 2013, can you give it a bigger Xmx? (and make
> Xms that same value)
>
> ## Otis
>
> Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
> Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)
>
> On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:53:21 PM UTC-4, Wesley Archbell wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Im currently doing a large bulk import from mongodb into ES, the ES
> > process keeps on dying after a while, im assuming its running out of memory.
> >
> > Ive got the following memory settings:
> > -Xms=512m
> > -Xmx=1500m
> >
> > The logs are printing out this before it dies:
> >
> > [2013-07-02 21:42:19,792][INFO][monitor.jvm] [Landslide]
> > [gc][ParNew][495][1351] duration [917ms], collections [1]/[1.4s], total
> > [917ms]/[1.1m], memory [405.2mb]-\>[375mb]/[1.4gb], all\_pools {[Code Cache]
> > [6mb]-\>[6mb]/[48mb]}{[Par Eden Space] [38.8mb]-\>[3.4mb]/[133.1mb]}{[Par
> > Survivor Space] [7mb]-\>[6.1mb]/[16.6mb]}{[CMS Old Gen]
> > [359.5mb]-\>[365.4mb]/[1.3gb]}{[CMS Perm Gen] [41.3mb]-\>[41.3mb]/[166mb]}
> >
> > Can anyone please help with this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-running-out-of-memory-for-bulk-import/12630/5 "2017-07-06T02:27:21Z")