[ZBX-3888] Zabbix server log may grow by 8 MB/s Created: 2011 Jun 16  Updated: 2017 May 30  Resolved: 2011 Nov 09

Status: Closed
Project: ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
Component/s: Server (S)
Affects Version/s: 1.8.5
Fix Version/s: 1.8.9rc1

Type: Incident report Priority: Critical
Reporter: Volker Fröhlich Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

Red Hat 6.1, Zabbix from EPEL


 Description   

The server log file grows at an awful rate, if you start the server and the agent without applying the SQL dumps.

Although it is basically a user's fault, it's a nasty behaviour.

  • Install Postgresql- and Zabbix server
  • Initialize PG cluster, create database and user, set a working authentication mechanism
  • Start the Zabbix server without dumping in the SQL
  • See the Zabbix server log grow by around 1 kB/s.

Log level is 3 ("warnings"). With this rate of growth you'd expect around 86 MB per day.

  • Start the Zabbix agent
  • See the Zabbix server log grow by 8 MB/s.

This rate of growth yields around 691 GB per day. Sudden death for my /var filesystem!

 Comments   
Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2011 Nov 09 ]

See ZBX-2851 for how it was fixed for frontend.

Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2011 Nov 09 ]

Reproducible in 1.8.8, but not reproducible in the latest pre-1.8.9. Was apparently fixed together with ZBX-4158.

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