On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:13:23AM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
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?
Yep, that makes sense.
Regards,
Daniel
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