Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use?

[Eric Crist]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:43 PMOct 1, 2007, Bahman M. wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is Apache rotatelogs suitable for handling large volumes of
> access logs, i.e. around 50K requests per hour at _peak_ time which is
> 1.2M requests per day.  According to Apache website
> (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#rotation) this becomes
> about 120MB in size per day.
>
> Does somebody have similar experience with rotatelogs?  Would you
> direct me to the proper tool in case it's not efficient enough ?
>
> TIA,
>
> Bahman

I would recommend letting syslog handle the rotation.  While we don't  
have that many hits, it's always worked well.

HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks