I have pruned log via the php4log configuration file. If you remove info
log entries will drop to a trickle.

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On Sep 3, 2013 7:38 AM, "José Juan Montes" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> Hi,
>> I'm trying to install Scalr and I read in the wiki some requirements:
>>
>
> Hello :).
>
>
>> 1x m1.large for mysql
>>> 1x m1.large for the web portal
>>> 1x c1.medium for cron jobs
>>
>>
>> Is all these instances really required? why is it so important to
>> separate cron jobs?
>>
>>
> I haven't gone production yet but I have been deploying and testing to a
> "m1.small" the complete system, including a local MySQL database. Only a
> bunch of servers (8-10) are being managed, and the truth is the host is
> pretty loaded permanently (~5). However, it runs just fine. I will scale it
> to a bigger machine to get the load down to a reasonable value, but my
> recommendation is to use a m1.small for the whole thing if you just want to
> start deploying it.
>
> From my current observations, you definitely don't need such a big
> instance if you plan to administer a few dozens or hundreds of servers. I
> plan move the database to Amazon RDS anyway. It is always good to separate
> database servers from applications, but you can do this afterwards and
> definitely you can run MySQL locally even in a "small" instance for a start
> if you wish.
>
> Regarding cron jobs, I believe it's important to ensure run cron jobs in
> only one instance. So, if you had several Scalr nodes, you should run cron
> jobs only in one of them, otherwise you'd possibly experience problems.
> Given this, if your scalr node is loaded, the first thing to consider is to
> move cron jobs away. But again, I have tested this on a single node.
>
>
>> And, most of all, how much space I have to set up for mysql? What is your
>> experience about it?
>>
>
> I'm still running in 8GB (m1.small instance). After 15 days with ~10 hosts
> the database is 1GB. 99% are log entries. Log data grows heavily and needs
> to be pruned, not sure if this happens automatically at some point.  Also,
> as a reference, here's the size of my zipped backups. Note that most of it
> is logging anyway.
>
> root@scalr01:/var/backups/mysql# ls -sh1
> total 232M
> 26M scalr-20130829-063141.sql.gz
> 37M scalr-20130830-064455.sql.gz
> 47M scalr-20130831-062700.sql.gz
> 57M scalr-20130901-063506.sql.gz
> 68M scalr-20130902-064331.sql.gz
>
> You will also need some disk space for metrics data (stored in RRD files).
> Around 5 files are stored per host, plus some others per role and per farm.
> Currently I'm using 38 MB for that which is pretty low and affordable. I
> don't expect this to be an issue, but we could easily move this directory
> to a separate EBS volume if needed.
>
> Best!
>
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