Deployment Architecture

Can you provide a linux server tuning guide for Splunk?

khyoung7410
Communicator

Hi
Operating System Question.
I'm using Linux Redhat 6.3 (64bit).
What is the optimal setting to use Splunk?

  • Hardware Info. - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) Linux 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[CPU]
processor : 0 ~ 63 (총 64개)
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 46
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7560 @ 2.27GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2260.889
cache size : 24576 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 16
core id : 11
cpu cores : 8
apicid : 119
initial apicid : 119
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips : 4521.28
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 44 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

[Memory]
MemTotal: 32861088 KB

[ulimit]
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 256570
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 8192
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 1024
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

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