sandstrom e542c03bea Clarify that number of threads is set by packages
This commit clarifies that on systemd the packages already set the number of
threads for the Elasticsearch process.

Relates #27840
2017-12-15 11:29:13 -05:00

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[[max-number-of-threads]]
=== Number of threads
Elasticsearch uses a number of thread pools for different types of operations.
It is important that it is able to create new threads whenever needed. Make
sure that the number of threads that the Elasticsearch user can create is at
least 4096.
This can be done by setting <<ulimit,`ulimit -u 4096`>> as root before
starting Elasticsearch, or by setting `nproc` to `4096` in
<<limits.conf,`/etc/security/limits.conf`>>.
The package distributions when run as services under `systemd` will configure
the number of threads for the Elasticsearch process automatically. No
additional configuration is required.