Why am I seeing high memory consumption on my heavy forwarder with a simple PowerShell script running ever 5 minutes?

[chrisboy68]

Hi,

I have a simple PowerShell script that runs every 5 minutes grabbing data from a database. I have noticed the memory climbs quite high (almost 16GB). I do have an "exit" in the PS script. Just seems like the memory keeps climbing.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Chris

[chrisboy68 · Accepted solution]

Sorry guys, this is old. I dont have an issue anymore..

Thank you,

Chirs

[anand_singh17]

Please share the resolution or RCA?

[lycollicott]

What was your resolution?

[halr9000]

I don't disagree with @jcoates_splunk about the support case, but more detail would be cool. What process is consuming memory? Splunkd or PowerShell? Does it ramp up over time, or immediately go to 16GB?

[jcoates_splunk]

does it behave differently when you run it outside of Splunk?

[jcoates_splunk]

this should really be a support ticket.