ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for

[Flynt]

My Splunk won't start due to this error! What do I do?

ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for (...)

[Flynt · Accepted solution]

A few things to check here.

1. Check your indexes.conf for any typos or non-numeric characters for this field.
2. Check and make sure your indexes.conf does not contain a comment or any other information AFTER the number - see below

OK :

maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000  

NOT OK :

maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000   #Some comment here

[jrodman]

FWIW, we can't cut configuration values generally with the # mark; for example they are needed in paths, and in regular expressions.

We could theoretically cut values that don't require # marks, but it could get rather tedious in documenting all the execeptions. In short I think it would make using and supporting splunk harder.

[yannK]

see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles
for the valid comments formats.