So the bloating of dentry cache is because of this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044666 My NSS version is 3.18 (Arch Linux, Kernel version. 3.14.21)
Setting NSS_SDB_USE_CACHE=YES has stopped the bloating. I have set this on one of the three nodes, dentry size hasn't changed a bit (in fact there was a small decrease) where as other two nodes have an increase of around 200 MB (in 18 hours). At this point I am not sure which component of th ES is making these curl requests (may be cloud-aws plugin?) -- Please update your bookmarks! We moved to https://discuss.elastic.co/ --- 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/726ad022-bdc0-45c0-846e-bc8486886836%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.