RE: [cobalt-users] Re: RAQ4 web.cache files getting HUGE

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > >I have multiple domains on a cobalt raq4. If I sell 100mb
> domain, I set up
> > >115mb for the site, and 100mb for the site admin to allow for
> log files.
> > > Now that I have had the server in place for awhile, I notice that the
> > > web.cache and web.cache.new are taking up more and more space. I am
> > > having to increase total web space for domains so that they
> still get the
> > > base 100mb they paid for.
> > >
> > >Is there something I can do to keep this from happening?
> >
> > Delete them once in a while.
>
> The files contain cached DNS lookup information, to speed up
> processing the
> logs (no external DNS lookups required once an IP/domain is
> cached locally).
>
> You'll also see mail.cache and ftp.cache files as well.
>
> You can safely delete them at the expense of forcing more DNS
> lookups when
> processing your logs (not a problem at all IMO).

If those 2 logs are getting big take a look in /home/.cobalt/report which
contains global versions of the same, if the others are big then those will
be huge! Sooner or later they grow to a size where they will give overnight
cron errors as they get to big to process.

Phil


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