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Expand Up @@ -536,6 +536,21 @@ Errors when executing ``make initdb``
opensearch wants a lot of memory (Dustin gives warehouse ~4GB locally).
Refer to the tip under :ref:`running-warehouse-containers` section for more details.

* If ``make initdb`` fails with an error like::

A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
SIGILL (0x4) at pc=0x0000f819dfc67c5c, pid=25, tid=26

while building the ``warehouse-opensearch`` image, this is a known issue
with OpenSearch in Apple M4 processors. A workaround (described in
`this comment <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/118583#issuecomment-2567270484>`_)
is to add the following line to ``dev/compose/opensearch/Dockerfile.yml`` (after
the FROM line):

.. code-block:: docker

ENV _JAVA_OPTIONS=-XX:UseSVE=0


"no space left on device" when using ``docker compose``
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