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Bug 69604 - acct (process and login accounting) fill up instances /var/ partition
acct (process and login accounting) fill up instances /var/ partition
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia Labs
Classification: Unclassified
Infrastructure (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF)
: ops
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Blocks: 69601
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Reported: 2014-08-15 12:36 UTC by Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF)
Modified: 2014-10-16 00:57 UTC (History)
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Description Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2014-08-15 12:36:37 UTC 
I noticed 'acct' generates log files under /var/log/account/ which is on a 2GB partition.  It is log rotated via a daily cron  /etc/cron.daily/acct , keeping the last day uncompressed.

On deployment-bastion.eqiad.wmflabs that is 542MB currently, or a quarter of /var/ available disk space.

/etc/default/acct has an option to change the number of day to be kept:

 # Amount of days that the logs are kept.
 ACCT_LOGGING="30"


Maybe we can reduce it to 15 days?
Comment 1 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2014-10-03 08:12:14 UTC 
The package is acct which is part of of our standard packages installed via puppet. It provides data for commands such as 'ac' or 'lastcomm'.
Comment 2 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-10-03 08:17:04 UTC 
Change 164520 had a related patch set uploaded by Hashar:
labs: reduce acct archiving retention

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164520
Comment 3 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2014-10-03 08:23:49 UTC 
+bd808  +jeremyb
Comment 4 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-10-16 00:56:10 UTC 
Change 164520 merged by Dzahn:
labs: reduce acct archiving retention

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164520
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