topic How to remove and prevent error &quot;minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /var/run/splunk/dispatch&quot; on my heavy forwarder? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221080#M43399 <P>I keep getting the "minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /var/run/splunk/dispatch" on one of my heavy forwarders. There are no jobs that I can see in the job manager. Not sure where to go from this point. Should I just delete all of the search artifacts in the directory since it is a forwarder? </P> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:43:12 GMT sbattista09 2016-02-24T17:43:12Z How to remove and prevent error "minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /var/run/splunk/dispatch" on my heavy forwarder? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221080#M43399 <P>I keep getting the "minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /var/run/splunk/dispatch" on one of my heavy forwarders. There are no jobs that I can see in the job manager. Not sure where to go from this point. Should I just delete all of the search artifacts in the directory since it is a forwarder? </P> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:43:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221080#M43399 sbattista09 2016-02-24T17:43:12Z Re: How to remove and prevent error "minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /var/run/splunk/dispatch" on my heavy forwarder? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221081#M43400 <P>If you have a small data partition allocated for Splunk on that host, you can reduce the minimum free space required by Splunk to continue running. Set the minFreeSpace stanza in server.conf:</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Indexer/Setlimitsondiskusage">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Indexer/Setlimitsondiskusage</A></P> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:14:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221081#M43400 the_wolverine 2016-02-24T18:14:14Z Re: How to remove and prevent error "minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /var/run/splunk/dispatch" on my heavy forwarder? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221082#M43401 <P>what is the root cause of this issues?</P> <P>I can go from the default of 5000 "5gb" to 10000 (10gb) sure that's fine however, whats to stop this error from happening again?</P> <PRE><CODE> [diskUsage] minFreeSpace = 10000 </CODE></PRE> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:04:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-remove-and-prevent-error-quot-minimum-free-disk-space/m-p/221082#M43401 sbattista09 2016-02-25T16:04:03Z