Re: [tlug] Apache: Logging: how-to pipe logs or log toanothermachine(wasDisk

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

> >From: Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>
> >
> >I dont gzip the log files as they go raw to disk. I then rotate the files
> >about twice a day (when they hit 2G) and bring them back over the private
> >network at night.
>
> Wow. If I ever figure out how to gzip the logs on the fly (they *say* it is
> possbile) I'll let you know.
>
> *You* need it more than I do ;) (I get about 10:1 compression. Transfering
> 5Gb instead of 50Gb over your network might sound appealing)
>

When the apache logs rotate, they are gziped. gziping on the fly will just
mean that the bottleneck becomes cpu rather than disk. Being Sun hardware
the cpu is a more precious resource than IO.

Tim.

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