On 3/31/06, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-Mar-30 21:04:52 +0000, Christian S.J. Peron wrote: > >> This change allows syslogd to ignore ENOSPC space errors, so that when the > >> filesystem is cleaned up, syslogd will automatically start logging again > >> without requiring the reset. This makes syslogd(8) a bit more reliable. > > > > My sole concern with this is that this means that syslogd will keep trying > > to write to the full filesystem - and the kernel will log the attempts to > > write to a full filesystem. Whilst there's rate limiting in the kernel, > > this sort of feedback loop is undesirable. > > What I'd like to see is an argument to syslogd to specify a maximum full level > for the target file system. Log data is valuable, but being able to write to > /var/tmp/vi.recover is also important. syslogd -l 90% could specify that > sylogd should not write log records, perhaps other than an "out of space > record" to a log file on a file system with >=90% capacity. This prevents the > kernel from spewing about being out of space also. The accounting code does > exactly this, for identical reasons. > > Robert N M Watson
I was in bed last night and thought about this but also remembered something: imagine a very busy syslog machine, won't this "free space check" be a burden? I have a syslog machine at work that can fill up 30GB of disk in less than 2 hours and it's busy as it is :-) The solution as you correctly point out is it being optional. Take in consideration that checking by percentage can be tricky. On a very large disk that's inefficient, on a small one dangerous. Maybe a choice between percentage and real space is best. Does the kernel automatically starts complaining about out of space at 90%? If so that undermines my previous suggestions, but the questions remain ;-) -- Joao Barros _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"