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Elasticsearch memory problems


You have configured a virtual machine with 1 GB of RAM, but elastic is trying to start with 2 GB of RAM (default for Elasticsearch version 5.X)

Either give more memory to your VM, or change Elasticsearch JVM settings /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options and lower the values of the following parameters: -Xms512m -Xmx512m


For the current version of elastic (5.X) you can configure jvm startup options in the jvm.options file usually located under directory /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options:

-Xms1g -Xmx1g

Hope it helps.


You need to start elasticsearch by the following parameters:./bin/elasticsearch -Xmx512m -Xms512

However it seems your memory (1G) is too low for running elasticsearch.