# Not able to start the elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821 "2018-11-22T08:25:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821/1 "2018-11-22T08:25:36Z")

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Hi Team,  
I have started elasticsearch using this command  
etc/init.d# ./elasticsearch start  
[ok] Starting elasticsearch (via systemctl): elasticsearch.service.

but cant able to access the elasticsearch

facing this error

emory: 4k page, physical 8070856k(1262412k free), swap 4882428k(4856492k free)  
CommandLine flags: -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/elasticsearch/hs\_err\_pid%p.log -XX:GCLogFileSize=67108864 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/elasticsearch -XX:InitialHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:MaxHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:MaxNewSize=174485504 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=6 -XX:NewSize=174485504 -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=32 -XX:OldPLABSize=16 -XX:OldSize=348971008 -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -XX:+PrintGC -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:ThreadStackSize=1024 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:+UseParNewGC  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.549+0530: 0.342: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000738 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000214 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.566+0530: 0.359: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000730 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000220 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.593+0530: 0.387: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000653 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000092 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.645+0530: 0.438: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000833 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000132 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.837+0530: 0.630: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001258 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000130 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.838+0530: 0.631: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000765 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000076 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.846+0530: 0.639: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001171 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000127 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.852+0530: 0.645: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001227 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000245 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.861+0530: 0.654: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001108 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000094 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:42.913+0530: 0.706: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001370 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000216 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:43.180+0530: 0.973: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001072 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000093 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:43.343+0530: 1.136: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0011267 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0009115 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:43.374+0530: 1.167: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001877 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000228 seconds  
2018-11-22T12:28:43.386+0530: 1.179: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001922 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000398 seconds  
Heap  
par new generation total 153344K, used 114606K [0x00000000c0000000, 0x00000000ca660000, 0x00000000ca660000)  
eden space 136320K, 84% used [0x00000000c0000000, 0x00000000c6febbd0, 0x00000000c8520000)  
from space 17024K, 0% used [0x00000000c8520000, 0x00000000c8520000, 0x00000000c95c0000)  
to space 17024K, 0% used [0x00000000c95c0000, 0x00000000c95c0000, 0x00000000ca660000)  
concurrent mark-sweep generation total 878208K, used 0K [0x00000000ca660000, 0x0000000100000000, 0x0000000100000000)  
Metaspace used 17205K, capacity 17660K, committed 17920K, reserved 1064960K  
class space used 2082K, capacity 2270K, committed 2304K, reserved 1048576K  
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can anyone help me to resolve this issue?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821/3 "2018-11-22T09:36:58Z")

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Please do not ping people not already involved in the thread. As this forum is manned by volunteers I would also ask you to be patient. If you have not received any reply to your thread after 2-3 business days, it is generally fine to bump the issue.

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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821/4 "2018-11-22T09:39:20Z")

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Okay @Christian_Dahlqvist

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**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821/5 "2018-11-26T20:45:50Z")

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Can you please post the contents of your `jvm.options` file?

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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821/6 "2018-11-27T05:04:15Z")

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Hi @rjernst,

This is my jvm.options contents ,

## JVM configuration

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## IMPORTANT: JVM heap size

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## 

## You should always set the min and max JVM heap

## size to the same value. For example, to set

## the heap to 4 GB, set:

## 

## -Xms4g

## -Xmx4g

## 

## See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/heap-size.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/heap-size.html)

## for more information

## 

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# Xms represents the initial size of total heap space

# Xmx represents the maximum size of total heap space

-Xms1g  
-Xmx1g

################################################################

## Expert settings

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## 

## All settings below this section are considered

## expert settings. Don't tamper with them unless

## you understand what you are doing

## 

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## GC configuration

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC  
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75  
-XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly

## optimizations

# pre-touch memory pages used by the JVM during initialization

-XX:+AlwaysPreTouch

## basic

# explicitly set the stack size

-Xss1m

# set to headless, just in case

-Djava.awt.headless=true

# ensure UTF-8 encoding by default (e.g. filenames)

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

# use our provided JNA always versus the system one

-Djna.nosys=true

# turn off a JDK optimization that throws away stack traces for common

# exceptions because stack traces are important for debugging

-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow

# flags to configure Netty

-Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true  
-Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true  
-Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0

# log4j 2

-Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false  
-Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true

-Djava.io.tmpdir=${ES\_TMPDIR}

## heap dumps

# generate a heap dump when an allocation from the Java heap fails

# heap dumps are created in the working directory of the JVM

-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

# specify an alternative path for heap dumps; ensure the directory exists and

# has sufficient space

-XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/elasticsearch

# specify an alternative path for JVM fatal error logs

-XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/elasticsearch/hs\_err\_pid%p.log

## JDK 8 GC logging

8:-XX:+PrintGCDetails  
8:-XX:+PrintGCDateStamps  
8:-XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution  
8:-XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime  
8:-Xloggc:/var/log/elasticsearch/gc.log  
8:-XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation  
8:-XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=32  
8:-XX:GCLogFileSize=64m

# JDK 9+ GC logging

9-:-Xlog:gc\*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=/var/log/elasticsearch/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m

# due to internationalization enhancements in JDK 9 Elasticsearch need to set the provider to COMPAT otherwise

# time/date parsing will break in an incompatible way for some date patterns and locals

9-:-Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT

# temporary workaround for C2 bug with JDK 10 on hardware with AVX-512

10-:-XX:UseAVX=2

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**Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch/157821/7 "2018-12-25T05:08:23Z")

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