[rhn-users] File size limit

[Donald Lambert]

Hey,

I have found that AS 2.1 is still based a lot on the RedHat 7.*
distributions.

With that said I know a lot of times there was a 2 GB file size limit.
In AS 3, you can create files larger that 2 GB, but you cannot tar them
as it seems tar has that limit.

I have to agree with Corné though, a log file greater than say 25MB
is basically un useable in standard pratice.  For example, you could not
vi a 2 GB file.

So unless you are dumping the data in to a trend tracker system not
much point in having such a large file.  Use logrotate.

-- Donnie

Corné Beerse wrote:
> Jonathan Fischer wrote:
> 
>> On two different servers, one running Red Hat AS 2.1, and the other ES
>> 2.1, I'm running into a file size limit of 2 gigabytes.  On ES 2.1, it's
>> being hit by apache (the out of the box RPM from Red Hat) writing to
>> it's access_log file; once the 2 gig boundary is hit, we start seeing a
>> lot "File size limit exceeded", or something similar to that in the
>> error_logs.  On the AS 2.1 server, a fortran program (compiled with the
>> Intel fortran compiler) one of our professors is trying to run crashes
>> when one of it's working files hits 2 gigs, with the same error message.
>>

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         Donald Lambert                   Donald.Lambert at Dal.Ca
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