From 16981f0484cbb2562aa2501346355b7cbe380f3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pierwill <19642016+pierwill@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:35:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Mention cache maximum errors in config docs (#3137)

See #3094
---
 .../v1.9/administration/configure/config-data-nodes.md          | 2 ++
 content/influxdb/v1.8/administration/config.md                  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/content/enterprise_influxdb/v1.9/administration/configure/config-data-nodes.md b/content/enterprise_influxdb/v1.9/administration/configure/config-data-nodes.md
index a9249f6e4..1ed1d8fd7 100644
--- a/content/enterprise_influxdb/v1.9/administration/configure/config-data-nodes.md
+++ b/content/enterprise_influxdb/v1.9/administration/configure/config-data-nodes.md
@@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ Default is `1000000000`.
 
 The maximum size in bytes that a shard cache can reach before it starts rejecting writes.
 
+Consider increasing this value if encountering `cache maximum memory size exceeded` errors.
+
 Environment variable: `INFLUXDB_DATA_CACHE_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE`
 
 #### `cache-snapshot-memory-size`
diff --git a/content/influxdb/v1.8/administration/config.md b/content/influxdb/v1.8/administration/config.md
index 0eac3434a..1ffeb0c1d 100644
--- a/content/influxdb/v1.8/administration/config.md
+++ b/content/influxdb/v1.8/administration/config.md
@@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ The maximum size that a shard cache can reach before it starts rejecting writes.
 Valid memory size suffixes are: `k`, `m`, or `g` (case-insensitive, 1024 = 1k).
 Values without a size suffix are in bytes.
 
+Consider increasing this value if encountering `cache maximum memory size exceeded` errors.
+
 Environment variable: `INFLUXDB_DATA_CACHE_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE`
 
 #### `cache-snapshot-memory-size = "25m"`