logrotate is slow if a lot of logfiles exist

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 1

Situation

The logrotate script is run once a day to ensure logfiles do not exceed a certain size.
When a predefined limit is reached, that logfile will be compressed and a new file will be created and used instead.

Under certain situations like if tens of thousands logfiles exist, logrotate would not finish until the next run is scheduled and the rotation will fail.

Reason is a not very efficient algorithm to discover logfiles to rotate

Resolution

The easiest resolution clearly is to avoid such a lot of logfiles.

Logrotate on SLES10 SP2 is fixed with logrotate-3.7.3-13.8.
SLES11 already comes with that fix.

Disclaimer

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  • Document ID:7002072
  • Creation Date: 03-Dec-2008
  • Modified Date:05-Mar-2021
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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