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Drew
Drew

Reputation: 598

How to set the ES_HEAP_SIZE environment variable on OS X

Using OS X 10.10.4, Elasticsearch 1.6.0 from Homebrew so server runs as Launch Agent on login: /usr/local/bin/elasticsearch --config=/usr/local/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

Question: How to set the environment variable ES_HEAP_SIZE to use 2gigabytes of RAM? What should I write and in which file?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1323

Answers (1)

Drew
Drew

Reputation: 598

Found an answer:

open the LaunchAgent (or Daemon) plist. In my case:

~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist

Add:

<key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
      <key>ES_HEAP_SIZE</key>
      <string>2g</string>
    </dict>

Upvotes: 5

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