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by artellectual 3014 days ago
I'm not sure why elasticsearch documentation recommends such memory usage, however for small apps I have elasticsearch running for years (version 1.x) and it's been running on a shared 2GB virtual machine for the past 4 years, I've had to restart it a few times, but seriously you don't need 32GB or 64GB. It depends on your use case.