SPLK-2002 Data Lifecycle Management Practice Question

You need to reduce the number of small buckets created in your index. Which parameter should you increase?

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maxDataSize

Increasing maxDataSize increases the size of each bucket, thereby reducing the total count of buckets.

Answer analysis

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maxWarmDBCount
Why it's wrong here
This controls how many warm buckets are kept.
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frozenTimePeriodInSecs
Why it's wrong here
This controls retention time.
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minHotBuckets
Why it's wrong here
This does not impact bucket size.
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maxDataSize
Why this is correct
Increasing the max size allows for larger buckets, reducing total count.

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