Getting Data In

Will this limit this forwarding speed to the Indexer?

Dark_Ichigo
Builder

Will this limit this forwarding speed to the Indexer?

[thruput]
    maxKBps = <integer>
    * If specified and not zero, this limits the speed through the thruput processor to the specified 
    rate in kilobytes per second.
    * To control the CPU load while indexing, use this to throttle the number of events this indexer 
    processes to the rate (in KBps) you specify. 
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jgedeon120
Contributor

Yes it does. It is set to default of 256 on universal forwarders.

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Dark_Ichigo
Builder

The Universal Forwarder V.4.3.2 has the following as default which I just installed:

[thruput]
throughput limiting at index time
maxKBps = 0

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