On 10/26/2017 12:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 03:30:46PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On a cloud host it is possible to create 100's of unique instances
> per day, each leaving behind a /var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-name.log
> file that is < 100k. With the current 'minsize 100k' directive, these
> files are never rotated and hence never removed. Over months of time,
> tens of thousands of these files can accumulate on the host.
>
> Dropping 'minsize 100k' allows rotating small files, which will
> increase the number of log files, but 'rotate 4' ensures they will
> be removed after a month.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com>
> ---
> daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in b/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in
> index 15cf019b2..cdb399ef2 100644
> --- a/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in
> +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in
> @@ -5,5 +5,4 @@
> compress
> delaycompress
> copytruncate
> - minsize 100k
> }
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com>
Only after pushing this did I remember there are logrotate files for other
hypervisor drivers: libxl, lxc, and uml. Would it be fine to push a followup
that removes minsize from those files as well?
Regards,
Jim