elasticsearch/docs/reference/commands/cli-jvm-options.asciidoc

[[cli-tool-jvm-options-{tool-name}]]
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==== JVM options

CLI tools run with 64MB of heap. For most tools, this value is fine. However, if
needed this can be overridden by setting the `CLI_JAVA_OPTS` environment variable.
For example, the following increases the heap size used by the
`pass:a[elasticsearch-{tool-name}]` tool to 1GB.

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export CLI_JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g"
bin/elasticsearch-{tool-name} ...
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