How to change Elasticsearch max memory size

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In ElasticSearch >= 5 the documentation has changed, which means none of the above answers worked for me.

I tried changing ES_HEAP_SIZE in /etc/default/elasticsearch and in /etc/init.d/elasticsearch, but when I ran ps aux | grep elasticsearch the output still showed:

/usr/bin/java -Xms2g -Xmx2g # aka 2G min and max ram

I had to make these changes in:

/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options

# Xms represents the initial size of total heap space
# Xmx represents the maximum size of total heap space

-Xms1g 
-Xmx1g 
# the settings shipped with ES 5 were: -Xms2g
# the settings shipped with ES 5 were: -Xmx2g

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