# 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")
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#### Post date: [October 24, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772/1 "2016-10-24T15:40:23Z")

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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.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/79b1c707a75c79fce2d7935caa3d66c3a6fb3b7c.png)

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/8f4f49218618085396467d257ade2afb0f0bfa57.png)

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