Amos Jeffries wrote: > Alejandro Bednarik wrote: >> Amos Jeffries wrote: >>> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> My squid log files, access and store, are becoming bigger and bigger; >>>> more than 600 megabytes each. Does it affect squid's performance? Can >>>> I delete them and start over? >>> store log is not really needed unless debugging storage, or doing fancy >>> cache monitoring. >>> You can configure that to 'store_log none'. >>> >>> For access.log you should be doing regular rotation of logs (squid -k >>> rotate). It has side-effects in other areas such as cache journals, >>> which might be more of a performance hit. >>> >>> Squid only appends to its logs, so the size does not really matter >>> until >>> they fill the whole disk space and crash something. Mine are happy up >>> at >>> 2GB/day for access.log and 40GB/day for debug cache.log. >>> >>> Amos >> >> Squid add an entry in logrotate directory's to do this jobs. Do you >> have >> cron running and logrotate installed? > > Yes. I have a standard self-built Debian Linux install. > Cron does not do any rotation, logrotate does. > > By 'getting bigger and bigger' do you mean that each days/weeks log is > increasing (no problem), or that the logs don't appear to be rotating? > (problem) > > Amos > -- > Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE9 > Cron run logrotate. Cheers! -- Alejandro Bednarik XTech - Soluciones Linux para Empresas (011) 5219-0678 alejandro@xxxxxxxxxxxx
