Clarify heap setting in Docker docs (#42754)

Add note in the Docker docs that even when container memory is limited,
we still require specifying -Xms/-Xmx using one of the supported
methods.
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Dimitrios Liappis 2019-06-03 15:12:29 +03:00
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@ -372,6 +372,12 @@ published ports with `--publish-all`, unless you are pinning one container per h
. Use the `ES_JAVA_OPTS` environment variable to set heap size. For example, to
use 16GB, use `-e ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms16g -Xmx16g"` with `docker run`.
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NOTE: You still need to <<heap-size,configure the heap size>> even if you are
https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#limit-a-containers-access-to-memory[limiting
memory access] to the container.
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. Pin your deployments to a specific version of the {es} Docker image, for
example +docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:{version}+.