On 8/11/2011 11:48 p.m., Jenny Lee wrote:
Hi,
We're having issues with log file roll over in squid - when squid is under
heavy load and the log files are very big, triggering a log file roll over
(squid -k rotate) makes squid unresponsive, and has to be killed manually with
a kill -9.
You would be better off moving the log files aside, sending squid a reconfigure
and working on the log files later so that you do not block squid.
That is what I do for access.log:
mv /squid/logs/access.log /squid/logs/access.log.bak
/squid/squid -k reconfigure
gzip /squid/logs/access.log.bak
Jenny
Reconfigure is a lot more intrusive to the traffic than rotate. Since it
involves reloading teh config files and closing server ports for a while.
You can do the same sequence as move+rotate+gzip using logfile_rotate
directive n Squid set to '0'. In fact that is exactly what the
third-party logrotate.d system and others do.
Amos
