# Filebeat.exe high RAM usage!

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 5, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071 "2016-12-05T16:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Slava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Slava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Slava)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/1 "2016-12-05T16:51:59Z")

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Original topic - [Filebeat.exe high RAM usage](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/62254)

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Can anyone advise?

Regards,

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/2 "2016-12-05T21:10:21Z")

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As @andrewkroh said in the earlier thread,

> Filebeat supports generation of a memory profile using -memprofile . Can you run filebeat with this setting and share the generated profile with us?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/3 "2016-12-05T21:11:39Z")

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Also Virtual is handles by the OS, not the beat.

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### Author: ![Slava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Slava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Slava)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/4 "2016-12-13T20:22:26Z")

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Hello,

[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27321236/Server1-output.txt](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27321236/Server1-output.txt)  
[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27321236/Server2-output.txt](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27321236/Server2-output.txt)

Server1 used about 300MB. Server2 something more than 3.5GB of RAM.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Regards,

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### Author: ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/5 "2016-12-13T21:26:23Z")

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Which Filebeat version were you running when these were generated?

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### Author: ![Slava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Slava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Slava)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/6 "2016-12-14T09:59:26Z")

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filebeat version 5.0.0-alpha4 (amd64), libbeat 5.0.0-alpha4

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/7 "2016-12-14T10:22:00Z")

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We've released GA versions, you should definitely upgrade!

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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: [January 11, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exe-high-ram-usage/68071/8 "2017-01-11T10:22:03Z")

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