Deployment Architecture

What is the Splunk block size for writing data?

maverick
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Does anyone know what the read/write block size is (ex. 4KB, 8KB, 16KB, etc) that the Splunk application uses to write data?

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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Block size is determined by the OS/filesystem, not the app.

maverick
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

so you are saying Splunk uses whatever block size the OS/Filesystem dictates?

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