#11692 NORM 12.1.0: /var/log out of space after a few days's uptime

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#11692: /var/log out of space after a few days's uptime
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 Reporter:  martin.langhoff  |                 Owner:  dsd          
     Type:  defect           |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal           |             Milestone:  12.1.0       
Component:  distro           |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                   |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0                |   Deployment_affected:               
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 With 11.3.1 OS images, /var/log's 20MB runs out of space after ~48hs of
 uptime in an aggressive S/R script.

 Right after boot, we see around 20300 blocks free. Quick tests show that
 each S/R cycle writes about 4 blocks of logs, so 5075 S/R cycles will
 consume /var/log . Growth is in /var/log/messages which adds ~50 lines on
 each S/R.

 With aggressive S/R, 5K cycles isn't out of the question.

 On F14 images logrotate is installed and seems to be called daily.

 We need to ensure it runs more often, and maybe we need a custom OLPC
 config for it.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11692>
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