Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:04:40 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c Message-ID: <20060331100440.GA12785@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20060331090421.I9972@fledge.watson.org> References: <200603302104.k2UL4qF7086165@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060331080654.GB776@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060331090421.I9972@fledge.watson.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:06:32AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: +> +> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: +> +> >On Thu, 2006-Mar-30 21:04:52 +0000, Christian S.J. Peron wrote: +> >> This change allows syslogd to ignore ENOSPC space errors, so that when the +> >> filesystem is cleaned up, syslogd will automatically start logging again +> >> without requiring the reset. This makes syslogd(8) a bit more reliable. +> > +> >My sole concern with this is that this means that syslogd will keep trying to write to the full filesystem - and the kernel will log the attempts to write to a full +> >filesystem. Whilst there's rate limiting in the kernel, this sort of feedback loop is undesirable. +> +> What I'd like to see is an argument to syslogd to specify a maximum full level for the target file system. Log data is valuable, but being able to write to +> /var/tmp/vi.recover is also important. syslogd -l 90% could specify that sylogd should not write log records, perhaps other than an "out of space record" to a log file on +> a file system with >=90% capacity. This prevents the kernel from spewing about being out of space also. The accounting code does exactly this, for identical reasons. One of the things I like about UFS is that it has 8% of reserved space and when syslogd is running as root, it can still log, even when /var/ is full of users' data. Of course there should be separate /var/log/ partition, but... In my opinion it'll be good, if we can stop logging various levels when we hit Avail=0% and stop the rest at Avail=-4% maybe. Maybe we should take logs only from logpriv when Avail=0%... -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFELP64ForvXbEpPzQRAvsYAKC5vwyCufpIS1CTskib0yC7oISFxACeMxMZ 4X3bnAdEGZ56xWzdXpRUQ0U= =lHl/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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