To be a bit more precise, we have 375GB of data. Still, I am under the 
impression that 1.4.2 uses at least 3 times more RAM than 1.3.4. Everything 
was fine under 1.3.4.

On Friday, December 26, 2014 11:52:48 PM UTC+3, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We had a 2 nodes, 10 shards cluster with about 150GB of data (not sure how 
> many documents, I would say about 150 millions since 1 doc is about 1K for 
> us). It worked fine under ES 1.3.4.
>
> We tried to update it today to 1.4.2. Now the nodes won't start. They eat 
> up all RAM during the recovery phase (when booting, and starting engines on 
> all indices), then GC occurs when no more RAM is available for ES. ES then 
> eventually gets stuck with OOM errors.
>
> I tried to increase the RAM given to ES to 30GB and it still eats all that 
> up and fails. Before with 1.3.4 we had 16GB allocated and no problems.
>
> Why ES needs all that RAM? It's doing nothing, not servicing a single 
> request... it's only starting the recovery process...
>
> We now have our production cluster down. It's really a huge problem for 
> us, please advise on any solutions or things we could try out.
>
> Java is IcedTea 7.2.5.3
> OS is Gentoo Linux
>

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