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High CPU utilization with splunk 9.x ( mainly windows UF)

hrawat
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

After upgrade to 9.x, higher cpu utilization.

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hrawat
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Run following search

 

index=_internal source=*metrics.log* ratio > 0.8| timechart max(ratio) by thread

 

Search will show threads using higher cpu.
If one of the thread is  SplunkConfigChangeWatcherThread, then disable new splunk config change tracker feature.

In server.conf
[config_change_tracker]
disabled = true


 

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hrawat
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Run following search

 

index=_internal source=*metrics.log* ratio > 0.8| timechart max(ratio) by thread

 

Search will show threads using higher cpu.
If one of the thread is  SplunkConfigChangeWatcherThread, then disable new splunk config change tracker feature.

In server.conf
[config_change_tracker]
disabled = true


 

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