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Splunk issue - bad allocation error

uagraw01
Motivator

Hello Splunkers!!

I am getting "Bad allocation" error on all the Splunk dashboard panel. Please help me to identify the potential root cause.

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @uagraw01 Looks like this issue is about memory. Could you pls check memory usage on this Splunk instance, thanks. 

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uagraw01
Motivator

@inventsekar I have updated the limits.conf under system/local and it does not impact anything. Issue is still  persist.

[default]
max_mem_usage_mb = 500

[searchresults]
maxresultrows = 86400
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