I just tried what I suggested, and it does seems to work. Ape still write in 
the original ape.log file and the previous content is store in another file. I 
also added in my crontab something to get rid of the old files (> 14 days).

  - Louis

Le 2012-09-17 à 07:29, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit :

> lol
> 
> 
> 2012/9/17 Louis Charette <[email protected]>
> No but I should, last time I check the log was pretty big lol. 
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
> 
> Le 2012-09-17 à 07:16, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> Yes that sounds like a good idea Louis. Many thanks. I will try that and 
>> come back here to confirm that it worked.
>> 
>> Are you using this Louis?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2012/9/17 Louis Charette <[email protected]>
>> Duplicate the file ape is using (copy/paste) and empty the main file after 
>> (echo "" > /var/log/ape.log) ?
>> 
>> Envoyé de mon iPad
>> 
>> Le 2012-09-17 à 07:03, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Pablo,
>>> 
>>> I have tried renaming the APE log file manually and seen with my eyes that 
>>> APE was still logging in the renamed file... Not opening a new file with 
>>> the old name. Which means my renaming was useless.
>>> 
>>> Do you see the problem?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2012/9/17 Pablo Tejada <[email protected]>
>>> Like i said in my other post, you can go back to using the file log method 
>>> and avoid that the file gets bigger with a cron job. For example you can 
>>> add a job that runs every 24 hours that would rename the ape.log file to 
>>> something like YYYY-MM-DD_HHHH.log
>>> Ex: 2012-09-17_1301.log
>>> 
>>> On Sep 17, 2012 4:12 AM, "Nicolas Guibert" <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Pablo,
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for your reply.
>>> 
>>> The problem with the standard file logging implementation is that log 
>>> rotation does not work. My understanding is that the file is not closed and 
>>> reopened when rotated. The file that is open by APE changes its name from 
>>> log.txt to log.txt.1 then it becomes log.txt.2, etc. So the file keeps 
>>> getting bigger and bigger. This makes it very difficult to use the logs 
>>> when needed as I only have one huge file and not one per day as I would 
>>> like. 
>>> 
>>> That's why I tried syslog but that does not seem to help much as the memory 
>>> used by APE gets bigger and bigger until obviously APE crashes... I would 
>>> much prefer if I did not need to restart APE every few days.
>>> 
>>> I am not sure what version I am using, but it is very likely that it is the 
>>> one that I mentionned in earlier posts, the one that was working fine with 
>>> Mysql (1.0.8 maybe or some version with an 8 in any case). I have not 
>>> updated lately for fear the Mysql would stop working. I have seen several 
>>> threads on this issue so am not really keen on spending time dealing with 
>>> Mysql again.
>>> 
>>> Again many thanks. What do you think of this? Am I missing something?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2012/9/14 Pablo Tejada <[email protected]>
>>> If you want to go back to the standard file logging implementation. You can 
>>> add a proper file rotation with a cron job. BTW which APE server build are 
>>> you using?
>>> 
>>> On Sep 14, 2012 2:56 AM, "Nicolas" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> I have recently switched to syslog for my logs. It is great since I now 
>>> have a proper log rotation (which was not possible with the standard file 
>>> logging implementation)
>>> 
>>> The problem is that I can see my aped process getting bigger and bigger. It 
>>> looks that it is taking the exact same size as the logs.
>>> 
>>> After one day of running my program, I already have 192m in Virt memory and 
>>> 152 in Res.
>>> 
>>> Not surprizingly my process crashed yesterday morning after a few days...
>>> 
>>> Anything that can avoid that problem? It would be a shame to reload aped 
>>> every day for that...
>>> 
>>> Nicolas.
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