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Which takes precedence - frozenTimePeriodInSeconds or maxTotalDataSizeMB

a212830
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Hi,

Which takes precedence in indexes.conf - frozenTimePeriodInSeconds or maxTotalDataSizeMB? Also, if I set maxTotalDataSizeMB to zero, will that make it unlimited?

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Lucas_K
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I would have thought its the first one to be hit. I don't think there is any precedence as such as they both perform similar actions (roll to frozen).

"Also, if I set maxTotalDataSizeMB to zero, will that make it unlimited?" Nope.

"Highest legal value is 4294967295" ~ 4.294 petabytes. - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Admin/Indexesconf

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