# What causes JVMMemoryPressure to be high

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-causes-jvmmemorypressure-to-be-high/157880>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-causes-jvmmemorypressure-to-be-high/157880 "2018-11-22T13:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![shin22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@shin22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shin22)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-causes-jvmmemorypressure-to-be-high/157880/1 "2018-11-22T13:04:22Z")

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I am currently having a high JVMMemoryPressure, averaging at 92%. Because of this, I cannot push any data on my ElasticSearch cluster.

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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, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-causes-jvmmemorypressure-to-be-high/157880/2 "2018-11-22T13:16:01Z")

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How many nodes do you have in the cluster? How much heap? How much data do you have in the cluster? How many indices and shards? Which version of Elasticsearch are you using?

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**Author:** ![shin22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@shin22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shin22)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-causes-jvmmemorypressure-to-be-high/157880/3 "2018-11-22T13:48:58Z")

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ESversion: 5.5.2  
instance type: m3.medium  
instance count: 4  
data node count: 4  
current document count: 901854

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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:** [December 20, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-causes-jvmmemorypressure-to-be-high/157880/4 "2018-12-20T14:02:06Z")

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