Re: Log file rotate patch

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Ken Moberg wrote:
>
>> This is a patch to reduce the outage window during a rotate
>
>
> Outage? Log rotation is supposed to be a fairly quick operation save
> for the time to write a clean store index (if you Squid is partially
> swapped out this can take a noticeable amount of time..)

Log rotation is very quick, it all the other stuff that was crammed in
there that takes a long time. That's why I wrote a mini rotate that just
rotated the basic logs.

>
>> + _db_rotate_log(); /* Rotate cache.log */
>
>
> If you do this then you need to restart helpers as well... cache.log
> is conneted to stderr of the helpers.

Do you mean the dns servers or something else?

Ken
Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 05:20:23 MDT