Comments on: How To Deal With Huge Apache Web Server Log Files http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/how-to-deal-with-huge-apache-web-server-log-files/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:01:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dotan Cohen http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/how-to-deal-with-huge-apache-web-server-log-files/#comment-495481 Dotan Cohen Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:03:28 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7325#comment-495481 > It is important to note that you might need to stop > the Apache web server for the operation to succeed > because the compression utility will stop if files > get changed during procession. How about copying the logfile to another location before compressing? This will of course only be practical if the logile is less than half of your available space, though if that is _not_ your situation then you are in trouble! This is why logfiles are usually stored in /var and why /var is recommended to be on it's own partition. When there is a traffic spike Apache logs can grow very fast, and when there are other problems (hardware failure, bad software update, breach) other logfiles can grow very quickly as well. If they are on their own partition they won't take down the server. > It is important to note that you might need to stop
> the Apache web server for the operation to succeed
> because the compression utility will stop if files
> get changed during procession.

How about copying the logfile to another location before compressing? This will of course only be practical if the logile is less than half of your available space, though if that is _not_ your situation then you are in trouble!

This is why logfiles are usually stored in /var and why /var is recommended to be on it’s own partition. When there is a traffic spike Apache logs can grow very fast, and when there are other problems (hardware failure, bad software update, breach) other logfiles can grow very quickly as well. If they are on their own partition they won’t take down the server.

]]> By: Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/how-to-deal-with-huge-apache-web-server-log-files/#comment-494197 Martin Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:57:36 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7325#comment-494197 Yes logrotate is a very good option which would have saved me the hassle of dealing with a 45 Gigabyte log file in first place. Yes logrotate is a very good option which would have saved me the hassle of dealing with a 45 Gigabyte log file in first place.

]]> By: pga http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/how-to-deal-with-huge-apache-web-server-log-files/#comment-494187 pga Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:51:08 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7325#comment-494187 just curious... how about using logrotate? just curious… how about using logrotate?

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