Re: [squid-users] Huge log files

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

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