Ccing Broadcom. I believe they are working on the log file size issues. They can answer the other questions.
On 07/29/2011 04:16 AM, Yuri Arabadji wrote: > Hi. > > During recent log revision, we've found a huge log file present > practically on all centos 5.6 hosts. It's located at /var/log/brcm- > iscsi.log and being generated by brcm_iscsiuio process. The process > writes to it *constantly*, thus generating disk I/O and consuming disk > space. By default, centos/rhel's iscsi-initiator-utils rpm doesn't > come with logrotate config file, thus the file grows bigger and > bigger. Here are the messages in that log file: > > ERR [Fri Jul 29 04:11:40 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to > NETLINK_ISCSI socket > ERR [Fri Jul 29 04:11:41 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to > NETLINK_ISCSI socket > ERR [Fri Jul 29 04:11:42 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to > NETLINK_ISCSI socket > > and so on. generated every second (although buffered, thanks for > that). I have absolutely no idea what that message means and why it is > being produced every second. If there's an error, syslog a fatal > message and bail out - that's the proper behaviour. Note, this is an > untouched default centos/rhel install. No file modifications have been > done to any configs or init scripts. > iscsi service is enabled by default on centos/rhel. > > Thanks. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi?hl=en.
