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[Christian Dywan <christian.dywan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31.07.2014 14:39, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
>
> today I landed some initial changes to our plumbing layer that will
> affect logging of the system and where you have to look for stuff ...
>
> a while ago we already changed the rsyslog setup to only centrally log
> to /var/log/syslog, all other log files should be largely ignored (i.e.
> no more separate kern.log with duplicated log lines) 
>
> additionally to this change I uploaded a new logrotate configuration
> (logrotate currently runs once a day triggered by cron or anacron) that
> it will flush the /var/log/syslog file if it exceeds 10MB.
>
> in case you are developing on some systemic bits and need more logging
> or to make sure  the file does not get flushed please edit (or remove) 
> /etc/logrotate.d/touch-syslog to your needs (needs a writable image
> indeed)
>
> additionally to this, while we need to have a swap file/partition
> available to make the kernel behave better in case of memory management,
> we do not actually want to *use* that swap space ... recently ricardo
> already landed a change that reduced the size of the swap file to 32M (i
> would like to see us to actually go a lot lower, i.e. the minimum
> allowed size since we just waste diskspace with that) 
>
> to make sure the swap space does not get used I added a "vm.swappiness"
> setting of 0 via the newly shipped /etc/sysctl.d/60-swappiness.conf
> file.
Out of curiosity on my part, in what way is a tiny swap file that never
gets used useful to the kernel?

Regards,
    Christian

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