{"id":6162,"date":"2019-07-11T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:08:20","slug":"elastic-search-error-max-virtual-memory-areas-vm-max_map_count-65530-is-too-low-increase-to-at-least-262144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/elastic-search-error-max-virtual-memory-areas-vm-max_map_count-65530-is-too-low-increase-to-at-least-262144\/","title":{"rendered":"Elastic Search Error &#8211; max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Errors<\/strong><br> [2]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make it persistent, you can add this line:<br>\n$ sudo vi \/etc\/sysctl.conf<br>\nvm.max_map_count=262144<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$ sudo sysctl -p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Errors [2]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144] Solution To make it persistent, you can add this line: $ sudo vi \/etc\/sysctl.conf vm.max_map_count=262144 $ sudo sysctl -p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5936],"tags":[95,4666,258,5228,5230,1795,104,5229],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elastic","tag-devops","tag-elasticsearch","tag-error","tag-max","tag-memory","tag-troubleshoot","tag-tutorials","tag-virtual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}