Deployment Architecture

Can I limit the total memory used by Splunk on my Linux server?

jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

My Linux system has 30GB of RAM available. Is there a way I can limit the memory used by Splunk so that I do not exhaust the total memory in use on the system and cause a service outage?

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hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Please check out this Splunk Answer.

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