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Are the DMC Critical System Physical Memory Usage alerts inherently slow?

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

We see the following -

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The elapsed time for each one of them is high. Is it the expected behavior?

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davpx
Communicator

This doesn't mean the alerts are slow it means this is the amount of time the alerts have been activated due to high memory usage, so in this case, 30 - 50 seconds of high memory usage per search head.

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

I thought that elapsed time is the time it took the search to run. Isn't it?

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