https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14659#M95 <P>@gkanapathy can you please add some more information to your answer around the statement "various limits and settings." i.e. what are these settings called, where do you set them etc. i.e. manual page etc?</P> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:50:05 GMT astubbs 2010-06-30T07:50:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14657#M93 <P>Is it possible to explicitly define how much memory splunk (splunkd and splunkweb) is allowed to use? Thanks</P> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:40:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14657#M93 domengph 2010-06-02T10:40:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14658#M94 <P>No it is not. It is only possible to indirectly influence it with various limits and settings.</P> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:15:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14658#M94 gkanapathy 2010-06-02T20:15:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14659#M95 <P>@gkanapathy can you please add some more information to your answer around the statement "various limits and settings." i.e. what are these settings called, where do you set them etc. i.e. manual page etc?</P> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:50:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14659#M95 astubbs 2010-06-30T07:50:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14660#M96 <P>Ok, so what limits and settings do you need to change for the memory usage to be reduced? I'm having issues with this in our production SLES environment. Anything helps. thanks!</P> Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:17:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14660#M96 tmahfoudi 2010-12-10T23:17:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14661#M97 <P>Splunk uses memory in parallel to how much work it is doing. If you are indexing a lot of data, have many concurrent searches, etc than Splunk is going to use a lot of memory in the process of doing the work that you asked it to do.</P> <P>A better question might be - why would you want to constrain the amount of memory that Splunk uses?</P> Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:31:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/How-to-minimize-splunk-s-memory-usage/m-p/14661#M97 araitz 2010-12-11T00:31:27Z