Many scripts are used to start/stop and install/uninstall elasticsearch. These scripts share a lot of configuration properties like directory paths, max value for a setting, default user etc. Most of the values are identical but some of them are different depending of the platform (Debian-based or Redhat-based OS), depending of the way elasticsearch is started (shell script, systemd, sysv-init...) or the way it is installed (zip, rpm, deb...). Today the values are duplicated in multiple places, making it difficult to maintain the scripts or to update a value.
This pull request make this more uniform: values used in scripts must be defined in a common packaging.properties file. Each value can be overridden in another specific packaging.properties file for Debian or Redhat. All startup and installation scripts are filtered with the common then the custom packaging.properties files before being packaged as a zip/tar.gz/rpm/dpkf archive.
Enabling GC logging works now by setting the environment variable ES_GC_LOG_FILE
to the full path to the GC log file. Missing directories will be created as needed.
The ES_USE_GC_LOGGING environment variable is no longer used.
Closes#8471Closes#8479
We don't rely upon GC to cleanup mappedbytebuffers, we unmap them
explicitly on close in lucene. But the JDK has crazy loops with
explicit GCs in exceptional cases to try to force unmapping.
In general we don't want any of our code or library code calling
this method: so its banned in forbidden-apis as well.
It's easier to manage a configuration through environment variables than
through a config file if that config file has static values that need to
change each version (such as the ES_CLASSPATH). Trying to keep that in
Chef is tedious whereas just controlling these few settings with
environment variables like most of the other settings in here is simple
and straightforward.
Robert Muir
Tanguy Leroux
Andreas Kohn
Simon Willnauer
Robert Muir
Costin Leau
Phil Kates
Shay Banon
Aurelien Requiem