On 09-Apr-2004 Steven wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:23 am, Toad wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:28:06AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >> > I told Freenet to rotate logs, but instead it writes an apparently >> > unending string of logfiles. How do I tell it the number of logfiles to >> > keep? >> >> Freenet doesn't really support log rotation in the sense that at present >> it does not delete old logfiles. If anyone wants to add this feature, >> that would be great. Otherwise it goes on the never-ending TODO list. >> >> > phma >> > -- >> > li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa > > There are two more options regarding log keeping in that section of > freenet.conf. One of them is something like maxLinesCached, the other is > maxBytesCached. I set these values to a low size, expecting fred to > automatically discard older log information, and keep it all in one logfile > (rather than generating dozens of logs). It didn't work. I went without > checking the logfile for a while, and it ended up being close to 400MB! Just > for fun, I attempted to open this file in several different editors. Most > crashed, but one worked, and it took over 30 minutes for it to load! > > Am I misunderstanding what these options are for? I'm not interested in > keeping very old log information, so I'd like to just discard it, and that's > what I expected these settings to do.
The max*Cached options are (if I understand correctly) intended to control the amount of log data cached in memory at any given time. The idea, I think, is to set them both to a suitable value that will avoid excessive writes to disk. They have no influence, however, on the actual size of the log file. Someone needs to take a look at the log rotation code and fix it to work as most people intuitively expect, or at least document that it doesn't. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
