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What is the expected behavior of setting maxTotalDataSizeMB=0

the_wolverine
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The documentation infers:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/admin/Indexesconf

maxTotalDataSizeMB =

  • The maximum size of an index (in MB).
  • If an index grows larger than the maximum size, the oldest data is frozen.
  • This paremeter only applies to hot, warm, and cold buckets. It does not apply to thawed buckets.
  • Defaults to 500000.
  • Highest legal value is 4294967295
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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The expected behavior for maxTotalDataSizeMB=0 is to use an unlimited size for the index.
However there is a known bug for splunk 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 fixed in 4.3.3 that considered the
"0" value as a "zero" and shrinked the index.

see : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.1/ReleaseNotes/Knownissues
and http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.3/ReleaseNotes/4.3.3

Setting maxTotalDataSizeMB = 0 causes the index to be deleted on restart (rather than allowing infinite index size, which is what one would expect). (SPL-49535)

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The expected behavior for maxTotalDataSizeMB=0 is to use an unlimited size for the index.
However there is a known bug for splunk 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 fixed in 4.3.3 that considered the
"0" value as a "zero" and shrinked the index.

see : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.1/ReleaseNotes/Knownissues
and http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.3/ReleaseNotes/4.3.3

Setting maxTotalDataSizeMB = 0 causes the index to be deleted on restart (rather than allowing infinite index size, which is what one would expect). (SPL-49535)

the_wolverine
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