Hello, I'm having trouble lighting up a Elastic Search stack on Docker. The error I'm seeing is this: [2019-03-25T15:10:08,955][WARN ][o.e.b.JNANatives ] [unknown] Unable to lock JVM Memory: error=12, reason=Cannot allocate memory [2019-03-25T15:10:08,964][WARN ][o.e.b.JNANatives …

Using memory locking is a last resort for disabling swapping . It is preferable simply to disable swap . Can you do this instead of using bootstrap.memory_lock? If you must use memory_lock, the reference docs indicate that you need to set some settings on the container. It's not clear from your post,…

Tough Memlock issue in Docker Swarm on Centos

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DavidTurner (David Turner) March 25, 2019, 4:05pm 4

I have not verified this myself, but I have heard that if swap is disabled on the host then it's also disabled on the containers running on that host.

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Tough Memlock issue in Docker Swarm on Centos

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