hi I have a vm wiht 16gb. i need to reduce its memory consumption. for some reasons manually specifying Xmx1g and Xms1g (or any other value) breaks the elasticsearch. the service wont start. commenting this setting in /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.option file or creating a seperate file in /etc/elasticsea…

Manually specifing java heap size breaks elasticsearch service

ahsan0331 (Ahsan) November 26, 2024, 8:53pm 2

never mind i found the solution.

when defining the Xms and Xmx options they have to be at the start of line i.e. no space before them.

Blow is correct:
-Xmx1g
-Xms1g

but below caused problem.
-Xmx1g
-Xms1g

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