Timeouts of an elasticsearch 7.x on a weak CPU

I managed to run an ELK node on a pretty old and otherwise useless laptop, an old AMD E1-7010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics based Asus, that I beefed up to 10G of RAM.

If you experience a ton of the following messages:

Oct 26 13:18:26 localhost systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Oct 26 13:18:27 localhost systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

changing your systemd service type from Type=notify to Type=simple might help 😉