https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Migration-from-a-Windows-Host-to-a-Linux-Host/m-p/14124#M1385 <P>I am currently running a eval version of Splunk 4.0.9 on a Windows 2008 64Bit Host. Our purchase of Splunk has been approved and I am wondering if setting up the production version of Splunk (Latest Version) on a Linux 64Bit host would result in a performance boost. Are there any hidden 'gotcha' I should be aware of?</P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Jeff </P> Mon, 24 May 2010 21:01:25 GMT littlejef 2010-05-24T21:01:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Migration-from-a-Windows-Host-to-a-Linux-Host/m-p/14124#M1385 <P>I am currently running a eval version of Splunk 4.0.9 on a Windows 2008 64Bit Host. Our purchase of Splunk has been approved and I am wondering if setting up the production version of Splunk (Latest Version) on a Linux 64Bit host would result in a performance boost. Are there any hidden 'gotcha' I should be aware of?</P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Jeff </P> Mon, 24 May 2010 21:01:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Migration-from-a-Windows-Host-to-a-Linux-Host/m-p/14124#M1385 littlejef 2010-05-24T21:01:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Migration-from-a-Windows-Host-to-a-Linux-Host/m-p/14125#M1386 <P>Yes, you will get a performance improvement by going to Linux 64-bit. These days it's not as significant as it used to be, but Linux is still the more performant platform.</P> <P>The 'gotchas' to be aware of are obviously any file-paths that you have configured in *.conf files. All of the settings and values are the same across all platforms, so it's really just those darn slashes that trip people up.</P> <P>Your indexed data should also be transportable from one platform to the other, as long as the endians match on both file-systems</P> Wed, 26 May 2010 07:57:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Migration-from-a-Windows-Host-to-a-Linux-Host/m-p/14125#M1386 Mick 2010-05-26T07:57:55Z