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Author SHA1 Message Date
David Turner 15fd233ae3 Minor cluster coordination docs fixes (#42111)
Fixes a typo and a badly-formatted warning.
2019-05-15 09:27:08 -04:00
David Turner 1be5bb5bfd Recognise direct buffers in heap size docs (#42070)
This commit slightly reworks the recommendations in the docs about setting the
heap size:

* the "rules of thumb" are actually instructions that should be followed

* the reason for setting `Xmx` to 50% of the heap size is more subtle than just
  leaving space for the filesystem cache

* it is normal to see Elasticsearch using more memory than `Xmx`

* replace `cutoff` and `limit` with `threshold` since all three terms are used
  interchangeably

* since we recommend setting `Xmx` equal to `Xms`, avoid talking about setting
  `Xmx` in isolation

Relates #41954
2019-05-10 13:56:47 +01:00
Jason Tedor 008296e2b6
Reorganize configuring Elasticsearch docs
This commit reorganizes some of the content in the configuring
Elasticsearch section of the docs. The changes are:
 - move JVM options out of system configuration into configuring
   Elasticsearch
 - move JVM options to its own page of the docs
 - move configuring the heap to important Elasticsearch settings
 - move configuring the heap to its own page of the docs
 - move all important settings to individual pages in the docs
 - remove bootstrap.memory_lock from important settings, this is covered
   in the swap section of system configuration

Relates #27755
2017-12-12 10:24:37 -05:00