{"id":142,"date":"2015-04-05T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T09:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.catalystlogic.com.au\/?p=142"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:44:18","slug":"elasticsearch-on-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Elasticsearch on ARM"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the success on preliminary benchmark on my use case for Elasticsearch . I thought I would see how it ran on a ARM based ODroid U3.<\/p>\n

The U3 is a credit card sized mini PC from\u00a0HardKernel<\/a>, that runs Android or Linux.<\/p>\n

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The Odroid U3 Specs<\/a> include a 1.7GHz\u00a0Exynos4412 Prime\u00a0Cortex-A9 Quad-core processor, and 2GB RAM. While it support MMC storage, I'll be using a 16GB Sandisk Ultra UHS I Class 10\u00a0SD Card, in part to makes things interesting, and in part so I easily swap out my Android XBMC MMC between projects.<\/p>\n

I have gone with Ubuntu 14.4 from the ODroid forum site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oracle Java 8 via apt-get was straight forward, however elasticsearch via\u00a0packages.elasticsearch.org did not explicitly support armhf.<\/p>\n

I added the following to \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/em> as outline by the docs<\/p>\n

deb http:\/\/packages.elasticsearch.org\/elasticsearch\/1.5\/debian stable main<\/pre>\n
However apt-get update gave me the following error.<\/p>\n
W: Failed to fetch http:\/\/packages.elasticsearch.org\/elasticsearch\/1.5\/debian\/dists\/stable\/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main\/binary-armhf\/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)\nE: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.<\/pre>\n
As Elasticsearch runs in Java, I figured running the x86 version would be fine. Just needed to figure out how to do it.<\/p>\n
After hitting a dead end after editing \/etc\/dpkg\/dpkg.cfg.d\/architectures<\/em>, I tried adding architecture tags to\u00a0\/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/em> as outlined in the Multarch\/HOWTO<\/a>.<\/p>\n
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http:\/\/packages.elasticsearch.org\/elasticsearch\/1.5\/debian stable main<\/pre>\n
Worked a treat, package sources updated, and elastic search installed as a deb package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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