6 Sep
2005
6 Sep
'05
7:16 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 14:04, David Johnston wrote:
I was getting trouble with a 'grep something /var/log*' which caused the "Memory exhausted" message. With some deeper search I found the lastlog file in /var/log/ to be 1.2T sized.
- Change the format of lastlog so it doesn't use a sparse file. This
isn't trivial, but I think it's probably the best solution in the long run (unless #1 happens).
This is painful for most ways of backing up and cloning systems too. How about gdbm format as something that would work with miminal changes?
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Les Mikesell
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