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Re: [cobalt-users] logrotate locks up swap space on RAQ3
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] logrotate locks up swap space on RAQ3
- From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Feb 11 22:14:00 2003
- Organization: BRTNet.org
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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> We've got a RAQ3. Each day the cron.daily runs the logrotate job at
> 4am and no other daily jobs. As I've poked around I set up a reboot
> at 8am and noticed that after logrotate runs, it causes a spike in
> swap usage to 120M which declines but just down to 10M. The reboot
> at 8am resets things and we don't end up using swap space until the
> next morning at 4am.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing the memory
> leak?
I don't think it's a leak. The RAM is being used up as logrotate/
split_logs plows through all your log files. High traffic sites with
large logfiles take more time (and more RAM) to process.
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Bruce Timberlake
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