Configure heap dump path out of the box #26755
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The JVM defaults to dumping the heap to the working directory of Elasticsearch. For the RPM and Debian packages, this location is /usr/share/elasticsearch. This directory is not writable by the elasticsearch user, so by default heap dumps in this situation are lost. This commit modifies the packaging for the RPM and Debian packages to set the heap dump path to /var/lib/elasticsearch as the default location for dumping the heap. This location is writable by the elasticsearch user by default. We add documentation of this important setting if /var/lib/elasticsearch is not suitable for receiving heap dumps.
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The JVM defaults to dumping the heap to the working directory of Elasticsearch. For the RPM and Debian packages, this location is /usr/share/elasticsearch. This directory is not writable by the elasticsearch user, so by default heap dumps in this situation are lost. This commit modifies the packaging for the RPM and Debian packages to set the heap dump path to /var/lib/elasticsearch as the default location for dumping the heap. This location is writable by the elasticsearch user by default. We add documentation of this important setting if /var/lib/elasticsearch is not suitable for receiving heap dumps. Relates #26755
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The JVM defaults to dumping the heap to the working directory of Elasticsearch. For the RPM and Debian packages, this location is /usr/share/elasticsearch. This directory is not writable by the elasticsearch user, so by default heap dumps in this situation are lost. This commit modifies the packaging for the RPM and Debian packages to set the heap dump path to /var/lib/elasticsearch as the default location for dumping the heap. This location is writable by the elasticsearch user by default. We add documentation of this important setting if /var/lib/elasticsearch is not suitable for receiving heap dumps. Relates #26755
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The JVM defaults to dumping the heap to the working directory of Elasticsearch. For the RPM and Debian packages, this location is /usr/share/elasticsearch. This directory is not writable by the elasticsearch user, so by default heap dumps in this situation are lost. This commit modifies the packaging for the RPM and Debian packages to set the heap dump path to /var/lib/elasticsearch as the default location for dumping the heap. This location is writable by the elasticsearch user by default. We add documentation of this important setting if /var/lib/elasticsearch is not suitable for receiving heap dumps.
Closes #26665