Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 06:51:38 +0330 From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> To: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use? Message-ID: <20071002065138.477a7238@attila> In-Reply-To: <374E75AA-8954-4186-BBCA-F775730B1192@gmail.com> References: <20071001231334.71ddc9ac@attila> <374E75AA-8954-4186-BBCA-F775730B1192@gmail.com>
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On 2007-10-01 Eric Crist wrote: > 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. > Absolutely agree however I'm looking for a non-native solution to logging as the configuration will be migrated to a Windoze 2003 server in the end -just testing on FreeBSD. Sorry, should have already stated this at the start of thread. Thanks, Bahman
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