ILM Settings

This page covers settings that control Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for the MinIO process.

You can establish or modify settings by defining:

an environment variable on the host system prior to starting or restarting the MinIO Server. Refer to your operating system’s documentation for how to define an environment variable.
a configuration setting using mc admin config set.

If you define both an environment variable and the similar configuration setting, MinIO uses the environment variable value.

Some settings have only an environment variable or a configuration setting, but not both.

Important

Each configuration setting controls fundamental MinIO behavior and functionality. MinIO strongly recommends testing configuration changes in a lower environment, such as DEV or QA, before applying to production.

Expiration Workers

Environment Variable

MINIO_ILM_EXPIRATION_WORKERS

Configuration Setting

ilm expiration_workers

New in version MinIO: Server RELEASE.2024-03-03T17-50-39Z

Set the number of workers to use for expiring objects. Valid values are 1 to 500.

The default value is 100.