Logrotate Utility

Benjamin Griese der.darude at gmail.com
Fri May 7 12:47:28 UTC 2010


Yes, thats plausible
Another solution would be, do not compress and do not hold back log files
for too long or do if you have enough free space :>


Bye.


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:52, Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 06 May 2010, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a weird issue about logrotate utility slowing down the server
> > running ubuntu linux 8.04 hardy server. My logrotate runs at around
> > 12:30 pm everyday and during this time it slows down. The load is high
> > on the box.
> >
> > There is no error in dmesg and as well as syslog service.
> >
> > Please suggest/guide me how do i go about in fixing this issue.
>
> How big are your logfiles ?
>
> logrotate often compresses old logs - if you have huge logfiles that
> could slow things down.
>
> Log less stuff.
>
> Cheers,  Andy!
>
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