https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-quot-SummaryDirectory-quot-processes-referring-to-on-an/m-p/278643#M84141 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I noticed some processes running on the indexer today with the phrase "SummaryDirector" in the command-line. Can someone tell me what those are and what they do?</P> <P>I also see a bunch of "subsearch_summarize" processes on the search-head. What are these? Sorry, don't recall seeing either one of these in 6.1.</P> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:45:21 GMT a212830 2016-12-13T19:45:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-quot-SummaryDirectory-quot-processes-referring-to-on-an/m-p/278643#M84141 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I noticed some processes running on the indexer today with the phrase "SummaryDirector" in the command-line. Can someone tell me what those are and what they do?</P> <P>I also see a bunch of "subsearch_summarize" processes on the search-head. What are these? Sorry, don't recall seeing either one of these in 6.1.</P> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:45:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-quot-SummaryDirectory-quot-processes-referring-to-on-an/m-p/278643#M84141 a212830 2016-12-13T19:45:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-quot-SummaryDirectory-quot-processes-referring-to-on-an/m-p/278644#M84142 <P>SummaryDirector processes are around the maintenance activities that Splunk runs in the background around search cache and summarization needed to ensure buckets and search are processed.</P> <P>Most of this is defined in the <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Limitsconf">limits.conf.spec</A> file for more background.</P> <P>There is another good answers post on some of this here as well: </P> <P><A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/123443/indexers-with-large-number-of-indexes-becoming-unresponsive-because-of-acceleration.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/123443/indexers-with-large-number-of-indexes-becoming-unresponsive-because-of-acceleration.html</A></P> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:51:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-quot-SummaryDirectory-quot-processes-referring-to-on-an/m-p/278644#M84142 Kate_Lawrence-G 2016-12-13T20:51:17Z