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splunkd is at 100% cpu, lag in indexing

oreni
Explorer

Hello,

Yesterday I noticed that there's a substantial lag in event indexing to the default index (main). When inspecting the processes on my machine, I noticed that a single splunkd process running at 100% cpu.

I tried to restart splunk several time, but splunk gets to 100% cpu immediately and stays there.
I've opened ticket at support@splunk.com, but no response till now.
After deleting the index and re-indexing things got back to normal.

24h later I'm encountering the same problem.

The machine splunk is running on has 16 CPUs, 8GB RAM. ~200MB of data is being indexed daily, and there's no significant search activity as well.

Will appreciate any help with that.

Oren.

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1 Solution

oreni
Explorer

Issue solved.

The problem was that Splunk was monitoring more than 4000 log files which were already indexed.

In inputs.conf, we simply added ignoreOlderThan = 2d which solved the problem.

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arunsundaram
New Member

Inputs .conf file exists in the host and not in the indexer and this is for the specific host only TA

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oreni
Explorer

Issue solved.

The problem was that Splunk was monitoring more than 4000 log files which were already indexed.

In inputs.conf, we simply added ignoreOlderThan = 2d which solved the problem.

ali_alnajjar_ve
Explorer

Hi,

I assume this is not a Splunk indexer. right ?

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arunsundaram
New Member

the inputs.conf file exists in the host and this change need to be made at the host level. this will not affect the indexing

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campbells
Engager

Thanks for the solution.

Changes made....Problem went away.

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