Splunk Search

Subsearch timeout is ignoring settings

Deecie
Explorer

I'm trying to run a complex search and I keep getting this message:

[subsearch]: Search auto-finalized after time limit (60 seconds) reached.

However, I have this in etc/system/local/limits.conf:

[subsearch]
maxtime = 600

And for good measure I created etc/apps/myapp/local/limits.conf`:

[subsearch]
maxtime = 600

I've definitely restarted Splunk since making these changes. Is there something I'm missing? Could it be something to do with having nested and chained subsearches?

Tags (2)

MuS
Legend

Hi Deecie

this can be 'fixed' by changing the values in limits.conf for stanza [join]

 [join]
 subsearch_maxout = number_of_events
 subsearch_maxtime = max_seconds
 subsearch_timeout = seconds

after that it works just fine.

cheers,

MuS

sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

What version are you running?

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This may still be a bug. Best thing is to open up a support case to get this addressed. It also helps prioritize our engineering team.

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/6128/subsearch-search-auto-finalized-after-time-limit-reached-...

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