https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Lacking-Diskspace-on-Splunkidx/m-p/74132#M181184 <P>The amount of disk space needed for the indexes= sum of all the maxTotalDataSizeMB of all the indexes + 2GB safety.</P> <P>If you are using the Volume option, read this <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configureindexstoragesize">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configureindexstoragesize</A></P> <P>If you are splitting the indexes homePath and ColPath in different partitions, see this <A href="http://wiki.splunk.com/Deploy:BucketRotationAndRetention">http://wiki.splunk.com/Deploy:BucketRotationAndRetention</A><BR /> and <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Usemultiplepartitionsforindexdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Usemultiplepartitionsforindexdata</A></P> <P>the formula for the space used by one index on each location is :</P> <P><CODE>homePath total size =(maxWarmDBCount + maxHotBuckets ) * maxDataSize</CODE></P> <P><CODE>coldPath total size = maxTotalDataSizeMB - "size of the hot+warm+cold buckets"</CODE></P> <P>If you also have $SPLUNK_HOME on the same partition, do not forget to account for the dispatch folder (depends of the roles, usually 100MB per user + 500MB per power user + 10000MB per admin) (see authorize.conf)</P> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:07:25 GMT yannK 2012-12-28T17:07:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Lacking-Diskspace-on-Splunkidx/m-p/74131#M181183 <P>How do we determine the need for increasing diskspace on /Splunkidx. Do we have any formula ?</P> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:37:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Lacking-Diskspace-on-Splunkidx/m-p/74131#M181183 thiliphk 2012-12-28T16:37:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Lacking-Diskspace-on-Splunkidx/m-p/74132#M181184 <P>The amount of disk space needed for the indexes= sum of all the maxTotalDataSizeMB of all the indexes + 2GB safety.</P> <P>If you are using the Volume option, read this <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configureindexstoragesize">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configureindexstoragesize</A></P> <P>If you are splitting the indexes homePath and ColPath in different partitions, see this <A href="http://wiki.splunk.com/Deploy:BucketRotationAndRetention">http://wiki.splunk.com/Deploy:BucketRotationAndRetention</A><BR /> and <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Usemultiplepartitionsforindexdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Usemultiplepartitionsforindexdata</A></P> <P>the formula for the space used by one index on each location is :</P> <P><CODE>homePath total size =(maxWarmDBCount + maxHotBuckets ) * maxDataSize</CODE></P> <P><CODE>coldPath total size = maxTotalDataSizeMB - "size of the hot+warm+cold buckets"</CODE></P> <P>If you also have $SPLUNK_HOME on the same partition, do not forget to account for the dispatch folder (depends of the roles, usually 100MB per user + 500MB per power user + 10000MB per admin) (see authorize.conf)</P> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:07:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Lacking-Diskspace-on-Splunkidx/m-p/74132#M181184 yannK 2012-12-28T17:07:25Z