On 30 Jan, To: Mandrake Expert List wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that whenever logrotate is run, it can take more than 2 hours
> to complete. It looks like it's doing something fishy. I'm on LM 7.1 and
> this is the ls -lt |head of /var/log:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16497976 Jan 30 13:08 debug.log
> drw------- 2 root root 5914624 Jan 30 13:08 mail/
> -rw------- 1 root root 91056 Jan 30 13:08 messages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91399 Jan 30 13:08 syslog
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 467712 Jan 30 13:07 wtmp
> -rw------- 1 root root 49106 Jan 30 13:01 cron
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Jan 30 13:00 daemon.log
> -rw------- 1 root root 77890 Jan 30 13:00 sudo.log
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 30 12:36 secure
>
> As you can see, the *directory* size of mail' is huge! I'm trying to do a ls
> in that directory and it's been running for 20 minutes with no output yet.
> Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> L
>
I'd just like to add that I did a
ls -f /var/log/mail | wc
and I got a count of more than 101000 files!
L
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