Getting Data In

When i check logfile and found process cannot access the file because it is being.Is there any solution for this?

ravivasant
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WARN FilesystemChangeWatcher - error getting attributes of path "C:\pagefile.sys": The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

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s2_splunk
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What do you expect to do with pagefile.sys in Splunk? That's the OS swap file, probably locked exclusively and hence not accessible by any other process. Plus, it is a binary file and thus not really suitable for ingestion into Splunk.

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