https://blog.mattblair.co/tags/garbage-collection/ Recent content in garbage collection on A Place for Poor Examples Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://blog.mattblair.co/blog/20170813-elasticsearch-garbage-collection/ Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://blog.mattblair.co/blog/20170813-elasticsearch-garbage-collection/ Seeing high garbage collection with ElasticSearch? My team was seeing periodic 300ms+ garbage collection pauses. We found out that we had misconfigured our ES instances. If you’re encountering this, make sure you’ve disabled memory swapping: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/setup-configuration-memory.html