https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-our-httpserver-maxThreads-limit-parameter-in-server-conf/m-p/228150#M44455 <P>We were receiving errors similar to this message due to running out of http rest connections on some of our Splunk indexers.</P> <PRE><CODE>11-16-2015 09:38:15.180 -0500 WARN HttpListener - Can't handle request for /services/server/info, max thread limit for REST HTTP server is 1023, threads already in use is 1023 </CODE></PRE> <P>We referenced an article on this site (<A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/322462/why-are-our-rest-limits-so-low-how-do-we-change-th.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=splunkanswers">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/322462/why-are-our-rest-limits-so-low-how-do-we-change-th.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=splunkanswers</A>) that linked back to this documentation: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Troubleshooting/HTTPthreadlimitissues">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Troubleshooting/HTTPthreadlimitissues</A></P> <P>We made the config changes in the /etc/system/local/server.conf like below:</P> <PRE><CODE>[httpserver] maxThreads = 65536 </CODE></PRE> <P>However, it doesn't appear to have stuck and we are still seeing the max thread issue errors. Any ideas?</P> Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:17:00 GMT stevepraz 2015-11-16T15:17:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-our-httpserver-maxThreads-limit-parameter-in-server-conf/m-p/228150#M44455 <P>We were receiving errors similar to this message due to running out of http rest connections on some of our Splunk indexers.</P> <PRE><CODE>11-16-2015 09:38:15.180 -0500 WARN HttpListener - Can't handle request for /services/server/info, max thread limit for REST HTTP server is 1023, threads already in use is 1023 </CODE></PRE> <P>We referenced an article on this site (<A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/322462/why-are-our-rest-limits-so-low-how-do-we-change-th.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=splunkanswers">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/322462/why-are-our-rest-limits-so-low-how-do-we-change-th.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=splunkanswers</A>) that linked back to this documentation: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Troubleshooting/HTTPthreadlimitissues">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Troubleshooting/HTTPthreadlimitissues</A></P> <P>We made the config changes in the /etc/system/local/server.conf like below:</P> <PRE><CODE>[httpserver] maxThreads = 65536 </CODE></PRE> <P>However, it doesn't appear to have stuck and we are still seeing the max thread issue errors. Any ideas?</P> Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:17:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-our-httpserver-maxThreads-limit-parameter-in-server-conf/m-p/228150#M44455 stevepraz 2015-11-16T15:17:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-our-httpserver-maxThreads-limit-parameter-in-server-conf/m-p/228151#M44456 <P>The was a spelling mistake on the website should have been a upper case S in Server</P> <P>[httpServer]<BR /> maxThreads = 65536</P> Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:56:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-our-httpserver-maxThreads-limit-parameter-in-server-conf/m-p/228151#M44456 johnberwick 2016-01-04T13:56:49Z