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- From: jon.van.oast@med.umich.edu (UWI001)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: my own suggestion: compress error logs...
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:04:22 GMT
- Organization: UnderWorld Industries 001
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- this is a rather trivial point, but i thought i would bring it up while
- netware 4.0 was still in beta test and this MIGHT be able to get
- "sneaked" into the grand program (hint hint, novell!).
-
- today, the sys: volume on one of our servers ran out of space. no big
- deal, but for a few minutes all the users couldnt print, etc. turns out
- the error log file was 14 MEGABYTES large! granted, we know now to be
- fairly liberal with our space given to the sys: volume, but we didnt know
- that back when we gen'ed this server. anyway, i zipped away the error
- log file (being the anal-retentive type i am), then cleared it. the 14
- meg free got things back on track.
-
- now, the amazing thing is that when i zipped the file, it save 92% !!!!
- of the space. it ended up just over 1 Mb in size. so, my two cents worth
- of suggestion for future reference is that maybe the error log be stored
- in a compressed format -- after all, when you have EVERY little activity
- being logged to it (like all the ATPS stuff) it can grow PRETTY fast!
-
- yeah, we should check and clear our error log regularily. yeah, we should
- give at least X meg to sys: volumes. yeah, we should . . . but we have
- 10 servers and people forget and this was old. and, the point is, it
- happened, as things will.
-
- just a thought... thanks for your time&trouble! -jon
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