Jerry Geis wrote:
hi all
I have something like 3000 log files in a directory (from data collection). At 4am in the morning cron runs a script of mine that essentiallly trims all files in that directory back to a certain size. Basically does a "tail -c XXXX filename > tmp_filename"
I have noticed that only around the 4am-4:15 time frame when the trim is happening does my other process log connection attempts but my process (forking and opening databases) is not responding in time to give data back to the connecting process. Not critically important as it just tries again and all ok...
<snip> Are you trimming the logfiles sequentially, or in parallel? And unless the files are many megs each, 3k files isn't a huge number these days, so I'd wonder what else is running around then.
mark