From 1f9e0fd0dd7acd68616eab16eabc6bc0c65041db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Dyson Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:56:19 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] [Docs] improved description for fs.total.available_in_bytes (#26657) --- docs/reference/cluster/nodes-stats.asciidoc | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/cluster/nodes-stats.asciidoc b/docs/reference/cluster/nodes-stats.asciidoc index 793a056b3eb..4d748d31559 100644 --- a/docs/reference/cluster/nodes-stats.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/cluster/nodes-stats.asciidoc @@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ information that concern the file system: Total number of unallocated bytes in all file stores `fs.total.available_in_bytes`:: - Total number of bytes available to this Java virtual machine on all file stores + Total number of bytes available to this Java virtual machine on all file stores. + Depending on OS or process level restrictions, this might appear less than `fs.total.free_in_bytes`. + This is the actual amount of free disk space the Elasticsearch node can utilise. `fs.data`:: List of all file stores @@ -360,4 +362,4 @@ The `ingest` flag can be set to retrieve statistics that concern ingest: `ingest.total.failed`:: The total number ingest preprocessing operations failed during the lifetime of this node -On top of these overall ingest statistics, these statistics are also provided on a per pipeline basis. \ No newline at end of file +On top of these overall ingest statistics, these statistics are also provided on a per pipeline basis.