[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: logrotate: drop minsize directive

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 26 06:48:25 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 03:30:46PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On a cloud host it is possible to create 100's of unique instances
> per day, each leaving behind a /var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-name.log
> file that is < 100k. With the current 'minsize 100k' directive, these
> files are never rotated and hence never removed. Over months of time,
> tens of thousands of these files can accumulate on the host.
> 
> Dropping 'minsize 100k' allows rotating small files, which will
> increase the number of log files, but 'rotate 4' ensures they will
> be removed after a month.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
> ---
>  daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in b/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in
> index 15cf019b2..cdb399ef2 100644
> --- a/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in
> +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.qemu.logrotate.in
> @@ -5,5 +5,4 @@
>          compress
>          delaycompress
>          copytruncate
> -        minsize 100k
>  }

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>

Regards,
Daniel
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