From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 19:51:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD7916A418 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:51:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5514C13C48D for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:51:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so4829468waf for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:51:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=C3jVlwAWVa0lNOKRnYmz0QoT6zV7fKp6yAQYEvlUGfM=; b=f15gpaLU+21bhg2BmMc0E5SugKfFOyozrLa7KJ+o5ggD5V9BJRqeWrfjy0nxgTO5pKUTuDy0w4N7P1tUhWqiXVWIjGrPfvCg1MCwvKK9LyZE3a60M0viSqzqLIJi17fKabm2TltbjVCm6RfRUe8pwU0EuptGEfncfjYkVnppfAY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=gcZD7FOM1LmzbKX+8wBctGKn5YIKlwVCCO24Yen3Wp5VcLYhYQaxD9PhxlIgLlE4pHuOYa8Biw9ueJuHbDxwWEBXpACPnLhbqXzOoBHeVx7lVoM9BvkOZORWphM66cJcD9+FZsxGffawEEWawq6+jXjseQEJ3Z26Lykt83QOIo4= Received: by 10.114.160.1 with SMTP id i1mr5441856wae.1191268311422; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.14? ( [74.95.66.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 38sm624858nza.2007.10.01.12.51.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:51:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20071001231334.71ddc9ac@attila> References: <20071001231334.71ddc9ac@attila> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <374E75AA-8954-4186-BBCA-F775730B1192@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:51:46 -0500 To: Bahman M. X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:51:52 -0000 On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:43 PMOct 1, 2007, Bahman M. wrote: > Hi all, > > Is Apache rotatelogs suitable for handling large volumes of > access logs, i.e. around 50K requests per hour at _peak_ time which is > 1.2M requests per day. According to Apache website > (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#rotation) this becomes > about 120MB in size per day. > > Does somebody have similar experience with rotatelogs? Would you > direct me to the proper tool in case it's not efficient enough ? > > TIA, > > Bahman I would recommend letting syslog handle the rotation. While we don't have that many hits, it's always worked well. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks