I am using ElasticSearch 1.6.0 on Windows 2008 R2 server. I want to limit the Memory used by the ElasticSearch servers. I set the following and start the server set ES_HEAP_SIZE=4g The windows resource Monitor shows that the java process use 4GB commited memory. I then perform some search and retr…

How to limit the Memory used by ElasticSearch

Pradeep_Gowda (Nemo) July 17, 2015, 11:52pm 4

Can I see what your "ps -ef | grep java" looks like?

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