thanks for your response Jörg, somehow missed replying earlier. for some strange reason, the max threads setting was reset when i did a reboot.. so i had to set it back to a high number.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:10 AM, joergpra...@gmail.com < joergpra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your user ran out of thread/process space. This is reported as OOM in > Java. > > You can check the "nproc" entry in /etc/security.d/limits.conf for maximum > settings and compare this with the process table. > > The OS settings regarding threads are usually ok and should not be > modified. Check if you have modified ES default settings regarding the > thread pools, and revert this changes to the default settings. If this does > not help, you should upgrade from 0.90.6 to 0.90.11 > > Jörg > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:45 AM, T Vinod Gupta <tvi...@readypulse.com>wrote: > >> hi, >> i had a stable ES cluster on aws ec2 instances till a week ago.. and i >> don't know whats going on and my cluster keeps getting into a bad state >> every few hours. the error says OOM but i know that that is not the reason. >> the instance has enough heap space left. im running ES 0.90.6 version and >> giving half the ram (8gb) to ES process. and i see these messages (the same >> message kind of) in the logs on all the machines in the cluster. >> >> [2014-02-11 03:17:39,936][WARN ][cluster.action.shard ] [Star-Dancer] >> [facebook_022014][1] sending failed shard for [facebook_022014][1], >> node[zO9Pc1GNSuiVMA_Kn2b3UQ], [R], s[STARTED], indexUUID >> [qN3CUSfVS-m2KlgQQtOqxg], reason [engine failure, message >> [OutOfMemoryError[unable to create new native thread]]] >> >> any ideas on how to debug this or how to figure out whats causing this >> would be really helpful. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoGnDrE-yZnyFgUbMks84KVsyB%3Dp_9UGvQ_DmUo5Diub0g%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAHau4yuipzRgx-YmzEzjVJmyuE%3DXkTTZm08pv0-Yp5Lv5Xc97A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.