diff --git a/source/includes/fact-agg-memory-limit.rst b/source/includes/fact-agg-memory-limit.rst index 137babd986e..1d51bbe8b79 100644 --- a/source/includes/fact-agg-memory-limit.rst +++ b/source/includes/fact-agg-memory-limit.rst @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ space by using the :ref:`allowDiskUse ` option to enable aggregation pipeline stages to write data to temporary files. +The :pipeline:`$search` aggregation stage is not restricted to +100 megabytes of RAM because it runs in a separate process. + Examples of stages that can spill to disk when :ref:`allowDiskUse ` is ``true`` are: