myproject/ansible/roles/logstash/files/config/jvm.options

## JVM configuration

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

-Xms1g
-Xmx1g

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## Expert settings
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## All settings below this section are considered
## expert settings. Don't tamper with them unless
## you understand what you are doing
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## GC configuration
-XX:+UseParNewGC
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75
-XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly

## optimizations

# disable calls to System#gc
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC

## Locale
# Set the locale language
#-Duser.language=en

# Set the locale country
#-Duser.country=US

# Set the locale variant, if any
#-Duser.variant=

## basic

# set the I/O temp directory
#-Djava.io.tmpdir=$HOME

# set to headless, just in case
-Djava.awt.headless=true

# ensure UTF-8 encoding by default (e.g. filenames)
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

# use our provided JNA always versus the system one
#-Djna.nosys=true

# Turn on JRuby invokedynamic
-Djruby.compile.invokedynamic=true

## heap dumps

# generate a heap dump when an allocation from the Java heap fails
# heap dumps are created in the working directory of the JVM
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

# specify an alternative path for heap dumps
# ensure the directory exists and has sufficient space
#-XX:HeapDumpPath=${LOGSTASH_HOME}/heapdump.hprof

## GC logging
#-XX:+PrintGCDetails
#-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
#-XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
#-XX:+PrintClassHistogram
#-XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution
#-XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime

# log GC status to a file with time stamps
# ensure the directory exists
#-Xloggc:${LS_GC_LOG_FILE}

# Entropy source for randomness
-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom