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To: b.movaqar@adempiere.org (Bahman M.)
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Subject: Re: Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use?
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> 
> 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
>
	We've used /usr/ports/sysutils/cronolog pretty much since
the author first wrote it. Something to consider.

		Tuc/TBOH