topic Re: What is the default value for maxConcurrentOptimizes? in Getting Data In

What is the default value for maxConcurrentOptimizes?

rxdeleon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:23:59 GMT

If the parameter maxConcurrentOptimizes is not defined for an index in indexes.conf, will Splunk assign a value for it at runtime?

Re: What is the default value for maxConcurrentOptimizes?

sdaniels — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:37:07 GMT

The default value for maxConcurrentOptimizes is 3. If it's not defined in indexes.conf I would assume it uses the default but not completely sure. Best to include it with the default unless you need to increase as the documentation says:

This number should be increased if:
* There are always many small tsidx files in the hot DB.
* After rolling, there are many tsidx files in warm or cold DB.

Re: What is the default value for maxConcurrentOptimizes?

claudio_manig — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:15:44 GMT

On Splunk 6x it is increased to 6 by default, are there any recommendations for dedicated cluster node indexers? I feel that this value is a bit low for dedicated cluster nodes receiving over 200gb of data each day