On Windows I use Activestate Komodo. I have macros and pre-built commands to help munge the logs.
On unix I use grep, less, and vi depending on what I'm looking for/doing. Juan Ingles On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:59 AM, John Sundberg <john.sundb...@kineticdata.com> wrote: > ** > Speaking of logs -- what do people use to read them? > Does anybody use splunk -- do you like it -- does it help? > -John > > > > On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Grooms, Frederick W wrote: > ** > And since Anne is on Linux she can set up a cron job to archive the logs > every 5 (or 10) minutes. I do that currently on production so I can always > go back a complete day in the logs. > > Fred > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] on Behalf Of Benedetto Cantatore > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:59 PM > To: arsl...@arslist.org > Subject: Re: Log size and server performance > > ** > I found 500 megs to be a good size. I can usually capture what I'm looking > for within a 10-15 minute window. > > Ben Cantatore > Remedy Manager > (914) 457-6209 > > Emerging Health IT > 3 Odell Plaza > Yonkers, New York 10701 >>>> anne.ra...@its.nc.gov 04/21/10 12:29 PM >>> > ** > I ask because I know appending to a 1 G file takes a lot longer (in computer > time) than appending to a 1 M file. I was wondering if anyone was aware of > a practical limit? > > > Anne Ramey > > E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North > Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties only by an > authorized State Official. > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] on Behalf Of Lyle Taylor > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:09 PM > To: arsl...@arslist.org > Subject: Re: Log size and server performance > > ** > Well, this isn’t a definitive answer by any means, but my suspicion would be > that the log file size should be pretty much irrelevant from a performance > perspective, since it is just appending to the existing file, which is a > quick operation. The more important point is that if you’re getting that > much logging output, just having logging on at all is probably impacting > performance on the server. So, if the performance of the system seems > acceptable with logging turned on, you should be able to let it run as long > as you want, at least until you either meet you maximum file size or fill up > the file system you’re logging to without any additional performance impact > due to the size of the log files. Now, how to do something useful with such > large files is another question… > > Lyle > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] on Behalf Of Ramey, Anne > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:49 AM > To: arsl...@arslist.org > Subject: Log size and server performance > > ** > We are looking at capturing more effective logging to try and catch some > interrmittent problems in production that we can't seem to re-produce in > test. The problem is that the arfilter log on our server that runs > escalations is currently 50M and contains about 2 minutes worth of > information. This is, obviously, because of the notifications, but I'm > curious as to what point I can increase my log file sizes before I start to > see a perfomance hit. Any ideas/experiences? > > ITSM 7.0.03 P9 > ARS 7.1 P6 > Linux > Oracle > > It looks like 100M would catch a 1/2 hour of information or longer in all > logs except the arfilter (but we have to set all of the log files to the > same size). 500M might get us a 1/2 hour in the filter log, but the other > logs will be unnecessarily big and I'm wondering if having all of the logs > that size could cause server response time to slow? > > > Anne Ramey > > > > > _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > -- > John Sundberg > > Kinetic Data, Inc. > "Building a Better Service Experience" > Recipient of the WWRUG09 Innovator of the Year Award > > john.sundb...@kineticdata.com > 651.556.0930 I www.kineticdata.com > > > > > > > _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
