On 10/06/2010 12:04 PM, David Henningsson wrote: > On 2010-10-04 08:50, Martin Pitt wrote: >> Perhaps only slightly related to performance, but we need to work on >> our installation disk size footprint and CD size. We keep shipping >> fewer and fewer translations, and we grew some fat in installed >> libraries. > > In addition, when it comes to disk footprint, some time ago I was trying > to understand the logic behind all the log files in /var/log. > > Turns out that rsyslog writes most entries three times (!), e g if you > have a message coming from the kernel, it shows up in /var/log/syslog, > /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/dmesg! > > I think this is a waste of SSD life, disk space, CPUs will go hot, which > will in turn warm up the oceans, causing all Narwhals to die! Oh no! ;-) > > Back to business, can we just write everything to /var/log/syslog and > drop everything else? My assumption is that most users doesn't use these > files at all, and those who do, are normally aware of the "grep" tool. > The slightly more advanced users can configure rsyslog to fit their needs. > > Now, I don't know if this is something for an UDS session, a wishlist > bug on LP, or simply a discussion here, so feel free to redirect me to a > better forum if necessary. >
I'll note that these files are typically small and don't grow much during a session, except when something goes wrong. Then they can get huge, making things even worse. -Scott -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
