On 06/17/2013 07:21 PM, lee wrote:
Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> writes:
On 06/16/2013 07:09 PM, lee wrote:
Just think it through and then explain to me how it would make sense to
dedicate (a part of the limited) resources to have mcelog constantly
running.
I take it, then, that you've either never heard of logrotate or have
some reason not to use it.
What would be the relevance of logrotate here?
You do know what it does, don't you? Just to be sure, it keeps your
system from being buried under a mass of old logfiles by rotating them
from current to compressed archive to gone. That means that when your
hardware is working fine, all of the old data from mcelog goes away, but
there's enough kept for you to search it for signs of trouble if you
think you need to. (On a side note, waiting until you think your
hardware's getting flaky before starting it isn't always a good idea,
because unless you're lucky you probably won't have time to collect and
examine the data before it's too late.)
I must admit, however, that I've begun to wonder why I'm bothering
because you've clearly made up your mind that you don't need mcelog
running and have no intention of admitting that there might be reasons
to have it active. If so, do as you wish and stop bothering the rest of
us. Or, if I'm wrong, stop rejecting everything everybody says without
even bothering to examine it, as you've been doing ever since you
started this thread.
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