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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:03:56 -0700
From:      Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lots of accounting data
Message-ID:  <20080813190356.GY71785@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080813145945.80d08986.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20080813184603.GA25990@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20080813145945.80d08986.wmoran@potentialtech.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>:
>> I only really see two options, neither of which I particularly like:
>>   * Throw more disk at the problem (but given what I've seen, I don't
>>     like the odds that within a month or two, I'll realize I didn't give
>>     it enough).
>>   * Turn off accounting on these boxes.
>=20
> * Rotate and compress more frequently; and store less history?

The compressed history amounts to nothing in comparison (1.5GB per file
as opposed to 17GB). I suppose I could configure our hourly logrotate to
replace the functionality of /etc/periodic/daily/310.accounting. Sounds
like a viable solution to me.

Thanks,

--=20
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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