Fwd: Re: [ILUG] logrotate hogs resources

[Barry O'Donovan]

I seem to be making a habit of replying off-list...

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Subject: Re: [ILUG] logrotate hogs resources
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:07:31 +0000
From: Barry O'Donovan <barryodonovan at eircom.net>
To: ccostelloe at flogas.ie

Logrotate is run daily at 4.02am from:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

See also /etc/crontab and /etc/logrotate.conf

Regards,
Barry

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 13:27, ccostelloe at flogas.ie wrote:
> I am no Linux expert, but generally I can coax it into doing what I want,
> but I don't know where to start with this one.
>
> A 64 MB, 500 MHZ, lightly-loaded RedHat 7.3 server (bind, Apache), is
> unresponsive and has constant disk activity.  top shows logrotate as the
> culprit, ~ 90% CPU, 50 MB memory, and the majority of the minutes since the
> last boot-up.  Nothing else is much bigger than 1%.  It's not the only 7.3
> server set up, but the only one with this problem.
>
> I tried man logrotate, apparently it is configured via a file specified on
> it's command line, but I have no idea of what in the myriad of files in
> RedHat 7.3 is firing it up (my feeble guesses did not help).  I initially
> suspected logrotate was getting messed up by having to rotate the message
> log, but it is relatively modest in size.
>
> Can anyone please give me a clue where to start?
>
> Ciaran

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