We have a RH Linux 7.3 web server that has what I believe to be a default setup of logrotate running each night.
My first question is: what is the purpose of the default installation/setup of logrotate? What is it rotating? I ask because I am getting frustrated with logrotate and ideally would like to kill it, but don’t know yet what harm this may cause.
What happens is that each night a 4:02am it runs, but it seems to take a very long time to run and use a lot of resources. It shows up as using over 94% of the CPU time in Running Processes (Webmin). Plus to make matters worse, it doesn’t complete before the next instance runs, so they continually build up (I’ve seen 7 or 8 instances at once running) and this ends up severely slowing the system…
So my second question is: has anyone seen this and can you give me some pointers on correcting it?
Thanks!
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Keith Soares
Bean Creative
