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Appropriate segmentation for data.

thirumalreddyb
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Hi, I'm struck with a question. I have 3 GB of data coming in every day. I'm not sure which segmentation to follow. I'm preferring Full Segmentation by default. Could someone please tell me the pros and cons of the same.

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You can read about segmentation and its impact on storage and search here:

http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Segmentation

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_d_
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You can read about segmentation and its impact on storage and search here:

http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Segmentation

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sowings
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And it's not something I've ever seen tuned. 3GB / day is not typically considered a "heavy" indexing load, so it's probably OK to leave the segmentation as-is.

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