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Can certain Splunk configurations be modified to increase concurrency? Can searches be modified to better use CPU?

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Here are the changes that can be made to increase the concurrency and searches for the 'admin' user:

For user level concurrency, on all Splunk search head nodes add: /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/authorize.conf [role_admin] srchJobsQuota=5000 cumulativeSrchJobsQuota=5000
For Splunk search level concurrency, add the following section to /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/limits.conf on all search head nodes: [search] base_max_searches=192 ttl=60

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Solution

Here are the changes that can be made to increase the concurrency and searches for the 'admin' user:

For user level concurrency, on all Splunk search head nodes add: /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/authorize.conf [role_admin] srchJobsQuota=5000 cumulativeSrchJobsQuota=5000
For Splunk search level concurrency, add the following section to /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/limits.conf on all search head nodes: [search] base_max_searches=192 ttl=60

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