# Setting Logstash LS\_JAVA\_OPTS in docker not reflecting in container

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-logstash-ls-java-opts-in-docker-not-reflecting-in-container/210187>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-logstash-ls-java-opts-in-docker-not-reflecting-in-container/210187 "2019-12-02T13:25:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdronde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jdronde/32/58037_2.png) [@jdronde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jdronde)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-logstash-ls-java-opts-in-docker-not-reflecting-in-container/210187/1 "2019-12-02T13:25:41Z")

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Hi All,

I hope that this is an easy one and something that i am doing wrong in my compose file to easily fix it.

But basically in my compose file for logstash i am setting the environment value to LS\_JAVA\_OPTS

```
  logstash:
    image: bluemountain.azurecr.io/elastic.logstash
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: src/Configuration/Elastic/logstash/Dockerfile
    environment:
      - "LS_JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx2g -Xms2g"
    ports:
      - "5001:5001"
      - "9600:9600"
    configs:
      - source: logstash_pipline_config
        target: /usr/share/logstash/pipeline/logstash.conf
      - source: logstash_config
        target: /usr/share/logstash/config/logstash.yml
    depends_on: 
      - "elasticsearch"
    deploy:
      restart_policy:
        condition: on-failure

```

In portainer i can see this value reflected to "2g" in the below image

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/6/86e70f82e5fbf07d1c830055d76e1b2b5bad95e2.png)

But when the container starts - these values are not passed in

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/3/7308466cf96ecf8359c347d3887b6f8281cfb6c4.png)

any help would be greatly appricated as my LS container runs out of memory very quickly and takes 5 hours to import 61m rows of data (i am hoping that this will speed up the import of data)

Thanks  
Joe.

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-logstash-ls-java-opts-in-docker-not-reflecting-in-container/210187/2 "2019-12-02T15:19:28Z")

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That does not mean it is not getting passed. The -Xms1g -Xmx1g will be coming from /etc/logstash/jvm.options. If I set LS\_JAVA\_OPTS to -Xmx2g then my command line becomes

```
/bin/java -Xms500m -Xmx500m -XX:ParallelGCThreads=1[...] -Xmx2G -cp [...]

```

and the last value for -Xmx wins.

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**Author:** ![jdronde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jdronde/32/58037_2.png) [@jdronde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jdronde)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-logstash-ls-java-opts-in-docker-not-reflecting-in-container/210187/3 "2019-12-04T10:16:50Z")

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Thanks for this, spot on! I have found a much faster way of importing the data now - scrubbed logstash and am using NEST bulkall with .netcore app now

Thanks

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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:** [January 1, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-logstash-ls-java-opts-in-docker-not-reflecting-in-container/210187/4 "2020-01-01T10:30:26Z")

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