# How to limit the Memory used by ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-memory-used-by-elasticsearch/25825>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-memory-used-by-elasticsearch/25825 "2015-07-17T18:02:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pradeep\_Gowda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@Pradeep\_Gowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pradeep_Gowda)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-memory-used-by-elasticsearch/25825/4 "2015-07-17T23:52:05Z")

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

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