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Re: [hobbit] History File Management
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- Subject: Re: [hobbit] History File Management
- From: "David B. Ritch" <david.ritch (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:06:21 -0400
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Thank you! I believe that trimhistory is just what I was looking for.
David
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> In <48BB0143.4070500 (at) gmail.com> "David B. Ritch" <david.ritch (at) gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> I noticed after a while, that the hobbit home directory was growing in
>> an apparently boundless fashion. On further investigation, I discovered
>> that on one server, my history files had grown to several gigabytes.
>> After a while, this growth becomes unsustainable.
>>
>
> The hist/HOSTNAME.STATUSNAME and histlogs/* files shouldn't grow *that*
> much. They will grow, but usually slowly - they are only updated when
> there is a status change (red->green or similar).
>
> If they are growing quickly, it is usually because a status is "flapping",
> i.e. changing rapidly between red and green. I've seen this happen if
> you have two hosts reporting with the same name (e.g. two hosts called
> "www"), with one reporting a green status and the other reporting a red
> status. A look at the bottom line of the status report which says "Message
> received from ..." will help you figure out if that is the case.
>
>
> Regardless, the 'trimhistory' utility can be used to clean up the
> size of the history logs.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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