Yes, thats plausible
Another solution would be, do not compress and do not hold back log files for too long or do if you have enough free space :>
Bye.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:52, Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com> wrote:
On Thu, 06 May 2010, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a weird issue about logrotate utility slowing down the server
> running ubuntu linux 8.04 hardy server. My logrotate runs at around
> 12:30 pm everyday and during this time it slows down. The load is high
> on the box.
>
> There is no error in dmesg and as well as syslog service.
>
> Please suggest/guide me how do i go about in fixing this issue.
How big are your logfiles ?
logrotate often compresses old logs - if you have huge logfiles that
could slow things down.
Log less stuff.
Cheers, *Andy!
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