Add Virtual memory caveats On Linux the Virtual Memory settings might need to be changed. See this link for more details: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/vm-max-map-count.html Change-Id: Id373f95d8e4d6a7463b736f4f5cb54dc12525b6b
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1eb971c..ade66a3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md
@@ -74,4 +74,11 @@ This will compile, test and package the plugin artifact, which can be found in `./target/scala-2.11/analytics-wizard.jar`. +# Caveats +* **Virtual Memory settings**: run `sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144` from command line, if you are using a Linux box +and the dashboard creation fails with a similar error: + +```bash +max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [XXXXX] is too low, increase to at least [262144] +``` \ No newline at end of file