Have you tried the using the non-native installer? Doing the steps from the Splunk doc: mkdir -p /opt tar -xzf splunk-6.1.1.tar.gz -C /opt cat << EOF >> /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz="2147483648" # 2GB kern.dfldsiz="2147483648" # 2GB machdep.hlt_cpus=0 EOF cat << EOF >> /etc/sysctl.conf vm.max_proc_mmap=2147483647 EOF Making sure you have COMPAT7 binary compatibility in your kernel and splunk will start just fine. ... View more