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Why is Splunkd is restarting itself?
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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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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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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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
