Large number of "logrotate" processes?

sundialsvcs · 09-07-2016, 01:35 PM

Currently 325 processes like this:

Code:

root            1472   586   586 ffffff801a849b20    0 S      ??    0:00.03 /usr/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/apache2/access_log 2419200 -240
root            1473   586   586 ffffff801a849b20    0 S      ??    0:00.03 /usr/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/apache2/access_log 2419200 -240

Why?

(These are the Apache piped-log rotator processes, not the cron daemon that rotates other logs.)

Habitual · 09-07-2016, 02:47 PM

Code:

ls -hl /var/log/apache2/access_log

should shed some light. It's big, no?

sundialsvcs · 09-07-2016, 03:16 PM

I'm sorry, Habitual, but I entirely missed your point. (Swish!)

Yes, there's a lot of activity on this box all the time. But I still do not understand why there are over 300 of these processes running. I admit that I am not really familiar with this one at all.

Habitual · 09-07-2016, 04:07 PM

Ya got me, I'm not sure why so many are running from this "Apache piped-log rotator processes" description.
Never heard of it.

Stop apache and examine? Busy = Money.

if not,

Code:

lsof -p 1472 | less
lsof -p 1473 | less

will show you details of those 2 Process Identifiers.
/var/log/apache2/access_log could be "in use" by something besides apache2...

Code:

lsof +D /var/log/apache2/

will show what's using what where, if anything.

Hope that helps.

sundialsvcs · 09-07-2016, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

Hope that helps.

Aye, I think it does. Thankye ...