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Hi,

splunkweb takes ages to start. it even runs into an internal timeout and only with some tweaking (touch /appl/splunk/var/run/splunk/splunkweb.pid) it finally starts up after 2-10 minutes. We experience the same on 6 different Splunk instances. Find below an example which represents the second restart of a splunk instance. This one is faster as the first one but it still takes too long.

Without tweaking (service log): Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)... Done. Starting splunkweb... Timed out waiting for splunkweb to start

With tweaking (web_service.log) : 2012-01-05 14:08:26,875 INFO [4f05a0c7da160f4d0] root:243 - Enabling SSL 2012-01-05 14:10:57,546 INFO [4f05a0c7da160f4d0] root:133 - ENGINE: Serving on 0.0.0.0:443 2012-01-05 14:10:57,546 INFO [4f05a0c7da160f4d0] root:133 - ENGINE: Bus STARTED

Any idea what migth cause this behaviour?

OS: Solaris 10 HW: x86 Splunk: 4.2.5

asked 05 Jan '12, 05:39

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How are you "tweaking"?

(22 Feb, 05:28) joelzyla

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I spotted slow startup once after I was cleaning up my buckets (splunk clean all). After that Splunk was checking/re-config all buckets (and I have/had a load of buckets) which took some 40mins for startup! But this happened only once after the cleanup!

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answered 05 Jan '12, 06:45

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Hi,

we have the problem with each restart. Time drops after multiple restarts within a short time (e.g. 2 hours).

cheers, andy

(05 Jan '12, 22:27) kochera

I've seen this every now and then on systems with improper DNS settings.

(22 Feb, 05:31) Ayn

This could indicate issues with DNS, so I would suggest that you check if the DNS server(s) Splunk server is using (/etc/resolv.conf) work correctly.

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answered 05 Jan '12, 07:36

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Hi,

DNS configuration is correct.

cheers, Andy

(05 Jan '12, 22:29) kochera
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