which log anyway? 2013/10/11, Petr Bena <[email protected]>: > 990 GIGABYTES in single file? > > "Holy Jesus on a stick" --Debra Morgan > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Marc-André Pelletier > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> The switch to the new NFS server hardware is now complete, with only 12 >> hours of delay. :-) >> >> Seriously though, the filesystem copy took so long because - despite >> having prepared with a copy a day early so that only a quick rsync would >> suffice - there ended up being a bit over 4T worth of files that were >> touched in that 24h period. >> >> Log files, by their nature, are constantly updated. Normally, that >> shouldn't have been a major issue since the rsync would just copy them >> again... except that many of those log files were *hundreds of gigs* in >> size. This caused the filesystem resync to take a bit over 11 hours. >> >> While Cyberbot was the overall winner, with very nearly 2G of logs to >> his name, our winner for most impressive single log is yifeibot with >> 990G in a single log file! >> >> I would really much rather not have to turn quota on on our file system: >> it is very useful to be occasionally able to handle huge datasets. >> However, if users abuse the freedom I will have no choice but to do so >> in order to protect reliability and QoS. >> >> So, the delay having been that long, some things may have broken that I >> was no longer able to notice (I've been at this for 14h straight, now, >> and need sleep). I'll be on hand tomorrow to help work out any kinks >> that may have slipped in. >> >> On the positive side, however, we are now on new hardware for the NFS >> server and it seems to be working quite fine. Yeay! >> >> -- Marc >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >
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