#  high consumption of ram

**URL:** https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)
**Created:** [July 27, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543 "2020-07-27T08:04:54Z")
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### Author: ![arthurbsantos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@arthurbsantos](https://community.graylog.org/u/arthurbsantos)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/1 "2020-07-27T08:04:54Z")

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Hi, I installed or Graylog on a virtual machine, with 16gb of ram, but in memory it is increasing a lot, when I installed it was using 4 gigs, now it is with 15gb and it is only increasing

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### Author: ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/2 "2020-07-27T09:05:01Z")

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he @arthurbsantos

you did not share if you have all components of Graylog on the same system and how you did configure them. In addition how much data you ingest.

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### Author: ![arthurbsantos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@arthurbsantos](https://community.graylog.org/u/arthurbsantos)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/3 "2020-07-27T21:38:33Z")

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All components are in the VM.  
150 messages per second

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### Author: ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/4 "2020-07-29T08:33:42Z")

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how is your conofiguration of JVM HEAP for elasticsearch and Graylog?

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### Author: ![arthurbsantos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@arthurbsantos](https://community.graylog.org/u/arthurbsantos)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/5 "2020-07-30T00:37:27Z")

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### Author: ![shoothub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/shoothub/32/6412_2.png) [@shoothub](https://community.graylog.org/u/shoothub)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/6 "2020-07-30T14:15:29Z")

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So you problem is not graylog service (it uses default 1GB heap size), but probably elastic…

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/high-consumption-of-ram/16543/7 "2020-08-13T14:15:29Z")

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