Just to share some info:
Michael:
I have a Pentium 150mhz 64mb Ram and WD8gb HDD as e-smith box and, as It's not in really production stage yet, I enabled disk optimization without any troubles, e-smith works just great here!
I don't know really which pc should be considered older,
Maybe something in the bios setup could tell you if your hdd controller accepts optimization or not.
Aniston:
Normal size of my var/log/messages file is about 1mb each (rotating weekly)
Alejandro
Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> aniston wrote:
>
> > Assuming my /var/logs/messages is huge. Is it safe to just
> > check what errors were reported and then delete them or do I
> > need to restart some service after that?
>
> If you delete the files, but do nothing else, the files will
> still be huge, and still growing, just not visible. The file
> does not disappear from the disk until the last program which
> has the file open closes it. This disk space is then
> deallocated.
>
> If /var/log/messages is huge, you should find out why. If you
> need to do something about it,
>
> /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
>
> will rotate the syslog log files.
>
> man logrotate
>
> will give you more information about the logrotate program.
>
> Regards
>
> Charlie
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