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Why is Splunkd is restarting itself?

snowee
Engager

hello,

I have installed splunk on my server and I found many process of splunkd restart, and consume much memory.

How I fix that?

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

1. The "restart" part of the cmdline does not mean that splunk is restarting. It's just how it was invoked. It's most probably running just fine.

2. As long as you're not running out of memory there's nothing to fix. Memory is to be used, not just lay around.

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kiran_panchavat
Champion

@snowee 

We recommend that you raise a ticket and that you refer to the resources below for your information.

Solved: splunkd using too much RAM - Splunk Community 

Troubleshooting high resource usage in Splunk Enterprise - Splunk Lantern

Limit search process memory usage - Splunk Documentation

 

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @snowee,

for my knowledge, splunk doesen't restart itself, probably you're watching a fork of a running process.

Anyway, open a case to Splunk Support.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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