# Filebeat Memory Usage (Linux)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 24, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772 "2016-10-24T15:40:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@flodense](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flodense)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772/1 "2016-10-24T15:40:23Z")
I am experiencing a similar issue with filebeat-1.2.3 on centos7.
The log file that is being tracked reaches a maximum size of about 9.6MB and rotates out every couple days.
At startup, filebeat will start using 200-300MB of memory and over the course of 10-15 minutes will ramp up to as much as 900MB.
Attached you'll find my filebeat.yml as well as a memprofile from about a 10 minute period of the filebeat process running.
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### Author:  [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772/2 "2016-10-24T16:15:09Z")
Can you also post the `top` line for filebeat? Something like:
```auto
top -n 1 | grep filebeat
```
I want to make sure we're talking about residential memory and not virtual memory, since virtual memory is known to be very large for Go programs, but that isn't actually a cause of concern.
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### Author:  [@flodense](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flodense)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772/3 "2016-10-24T17:24:29Z")
Ahh! That's exactly right @tudor.
73340 root 20 0 806512 14484 1804 S 0.3 0.0 3:20.83 filebeat
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772/4 "2016-11-14T15:40:25Z")
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