https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73472

--- Comment #10 from Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> ---
(In reply to Andrew Bogott from comment #9)
> (In reply to Greg Grossmeier from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Andrew Bogott from comment #7)
> > > Greg --
> > > 
> > > For new instances /var/log is somewhat resizeable.
> > 
> > How much? Can we just change the default for new deployment-prep instances
> > to be $large-enough-to-not-matter?
> 
> Resizeable up to the available space selected when the instance was
> originally created.
> 
> It should be possible to set up sizing of /var/log based on project.  I'll
> have a look at that if that's the direction you want to go.

I guess we should way this ^ and the unbounded growth concern below.

> > Worst case scenario is creating a second instance of whatever with a larger
> > disk, moving traffic to it, then shutting down the old one, right? 
> 
> That's correct.  In perfect-puppet-land, doing that should be trivial, but
> I've been led to understand that in the real world it's a big pain.

Sadly, but that also points out other legitimate bugs :)

> > (as opposed to addressing the real underlying
> > issue of too little space on the VMs we use for our integration environment
> > which everyone depends on daily).
> 
> One might argue that the 'real problem' is unbounded log growth, and that
> beta just displays the symptoms sooner than production.  But I don't know if
> the issue really is unbounded growth or if growth is bounded properly but
> just bounded outside the capacity of existing instances.

Touche. But I'm still worried about all the differences between prod and beta
that cause surprises :/

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