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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9front@9front.org, igor@9lab.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Dealing with log files…
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 01:29:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93cde4806b45bd95@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6799A80ADC1AAA74E9DCEE123080793@9lab.org>

igor@9lab.org writes:
> What is the Plan9 way of dealing with growing log files such as
> /sys/log/www and others?

Most people just leave them alone. I tend to rotate mine by hand
about once per year.  Remember, once the files make it onto the worm
there's no reclaiming the space anyway.  And if you rename + gzip
them you end up burning up even more space, since you still have
the uncompressed version in the worm.  Even though the old file
is gone from /sys/log, it lives on forever in /n/dump.

The only reason I rotate mine is to speed up grep searches. And acme
gets grumpy when presented with gigabyte-sized text files ...

--lyndon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-17  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-16 20:06 igor
2021-10-16 20:52 ` umbraticus
2021-10-16 21:01 ` [9front] " Stanley Lieber
2021-10-17  8:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) [this message]
2021-10-17  9:06   ` umbraticus
2021-10-17 10:30   ` igor
2021-10-17 14:19   ` [9front] " Stanley Lieber
2021-10-17 12:29 ` Rodrigo G. López
2021-10-17 13:50   ` [9front] " hiro
2021-10-18  7:03     ` rgl
2021-10-18  8:51       ` sirjofri
2021-10-18 18:49         ` Steve Simon
2021-10-18 19:40           ` cinap_lenrek
2021-10-17 18:15 ` smj
2021-10-18  7:35   ` [9front] " Silas McCroskey

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