# Heap dump file created

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-dump-file-created/134169>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-dump-file-created/134169 "2018-06-01T08:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nikhil\_Jaiswal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nikhil_jaiswal/32/39326_2.png) [@Nikhil\_Jaiswal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikhil_Jaiswal)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-dump-file-created/134169/1 "2018-06-01T08:30:58Z")

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Hi All,

i am getting below error mesgae while running logstash 6.2.4

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/1666375665b0a06bc04e4a767c0c7266d666db5d.png)

and this process is creating 8Gb dump file inside logstash and logstash is crashing after this.

Any help would be appreciated.

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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:** [June 1, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-dump-file-created/134169/2 "2018-06-01T14:49:59Z")

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The heap dump is created _because_ Logstash crashed. It ran out of memory. An 8 GB heap should be sufficient in most cases so I'm curious what your configuration looks like and what the event rate is.

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**Author:** ![Nikhil\_Jaiswal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nikhil_jaiswal/32/39326_2.png) [@Nikhil\_Jaiswal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikhil_Jaiswal)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-dump-file-created/134169/3 "2018-06-04T03:43:44Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

it was running on 8 GB heap and total memory of the server is 16GB. I am receiving 40000 events per minute.

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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:** [July 2, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-dump-file-created/134169/4 "2018-07-02T03:43:49Z")

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