Elasticsearch container using a lot of memory

[abdel-aouby]

Description I'm on UBUNTU 24.04 with the docker engine and not the docker desktop

Elasticsearch container uses a lot of memory. This may be a wrong configuration of docker on my part. please I will need help with that if possible. My machine has 32 G of memory, and the Elasticsearch is using about half of it (this does not happen to me with other projects on the same machine)

Steps To Reproduce

1. bin/start
2. check the running processes

Expected Result Elasticsearch container does not consume too much memory when runing

Actual Result Elasticsearch container using a lot of memory (more than 50%)

[YevhenZvieriev]

Hi @abdel-aouby

You can set the minimum and maximum heap size to an appropriate value in your compose.yaml file. For example, to limit Elasticsearch to 8GB of memory:

- "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms8g -Xmx8g"

[abdel-aouby]

Hi @YevhenZvieriev it works fine I had an old version of the project that did not contain this value, thank you for your help I'm closing the issue.