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IndexScopedSearch Error

ryastrebov
Communicator

Hello Splunkers!

During search I get an error: "Error in 'IndexScopedSearch': The search failed. More than 1000000 events found at time 1361015487."

Which parameter in the limits.conf file should I increase to avoid this error?

Best regards,
Roman

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wrangler2x
Motivator

I had this same problem in an index taking various exchange log files. After reading this comment about the 100K events indexed in one second being a limitation, I started thinking about that. I have not had this problem before upgrading to splunk 6.1.5 (I was on 4.3.1 before). I looked at their timestamps and realized that these logs are granular only to the second. So I go in touch with the admin on that system, and suggested moving to advance logging, and turning-on millisecond timestamps. I had to re-do my props.conf for the new timestamp but that was trivial, and I am not experiencing this error any more when searching. When you make this change, you switch from monitoring where the log is and the name:

W3SVC1\u_ex*.log to AdvancedLogs\DEFAULT WEB SITE\Exchange_AdvLog_H*.log

I put this in my props.conf for the new format:

detect_trailing_nulls=auto
pulldown_type = true
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
CHECK_FOR_HEADER = false
TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N
TZ = GMT
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jalfrey
Communicator

Splunk returns searches in sub second order. You can not have more the 100K events indexed in one second. It is not tunable. Sorry.

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ryastrebov
Communicator

Maybe this is hard limitation of Splunk?...

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a212830
Champion

Curious as well - having the same issue.

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a212830
Champion

Curious as well - running into the same situation.

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ryastrebov
Communicator

The problem is still not resolved...

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ryastrebov
Communicator

Thank you!
I found this answer earlier. But I do not quite understand what kind of setting it:
"parameter tunable based on memory available"

Increase value of parameter "max_mem_usage_mb" doesn't affect the Error...

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smolcj
Builder

i think both are same . please check out [here][1]

 [1]: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/3397/indexscopedsearch-error-details
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ryastrebov
Communicator

Not have any ideas?

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