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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:51:46 -0500
From:      Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com>
To:        Bahman M. <b.movaqar@adempiere.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use?
Message-ID:  <374E75AA-8954-4186-BBCA-F775730B1192@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071001231334.71ddc9ac@attila>
References:  <20071001231334.71ddc9ac@attila>

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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





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