https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62543#M2120 <P>so you are saying Splunk uses whatever block size the OS/Filesystem dictates?</P> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:06:21 GMT maverick 2011-08-23T17:06:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62541#M2118 <P>Does anyone know what the read/write block size is (ex. 4KB, 8KB, 16KB, etc) that the Splunk application uses to write data?</P> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:57:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62541#M2118 maverick 2011-08-23T15:57:22Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62542#M2119 <P>Block size is determined by the OS/filesystem, not the app.</P> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:35:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62542#M2119 araitz 2011-08-23T16:35:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62543#M2120 <P>so you are saying Splunk uses whatever block size the OS/Filesystem dictates?</P> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:06:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-Splunk-block-size-for-writing-data/m-p/62543#M2120 maverick 2011-08-23T17:06:21Z