Log File Loading

[thenextuser]

Hello,

I have a problem with my log files.
When I want to view the log files in my OPNsense it takes extremely long and in the meantime the RAM and the SWAP goes up a lot.

A similar problem was already described here with version 20.1:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=16078.msg73538#msg73538

But the suggested workaround 'opnsense-patch e3774dd' does not work for me.
I get the output here:

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root@OPNsense:~ # opnsense-patch e3774dd
Found local copy of e3774dd, skipping fetch.
1 out of 1 hunks failed while patching opnsense/scripts/systemhealth/queryLog.py

What can I do to fix the problem?
Thanks for the help.


Version: 21.1.8_1   
Architecture: amd64   
Flavour: OpenSSL

[Fright]

hi
as you noticed the fix was intended for the 20.1 version.
21.1 already contains it
try to reset the logs (System: Settings: Logging: Reset log files)

[thenextuser]

Hello,

as you noticed the fix was intended for the 20.1 version.
21.1 already contains it

ok that's what I had suspected from, that the fix was not for the version.

try to reset the logs (System: Settings: Logging: Reset log files)

The reset didn't help, but in that settings menu I saw that I had massively increased the size of the log files.

This is probably normally set to 500000Byte so 500KB per logfile (with about 20 logfiles).

I have a lot of space on my harddisk so I thought I can increase the logfile size without any problems and set it to 10000000000Byte so 10GB per file.
(I would have with 500GB on the harddisk theoretically enough free space).

This was probably too much.


Is there a limit here that I should not exceed?
I would like to raise the value already.

Thanks again.

[Fright]

saw that I had massively increased the size of the log files
so you have circular logging enabled
general recommendation to disable circular logging and set the number of days to preserve logs
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/settingsmenu.html#logging

[thenextuser]

On the same page of the documentation I had read the following and assumed that this would already be set by default:

Local (non circular) logs

As of OPNsense 20.7 we will change our default logging method from circular logs to regular files. These files will use the following pattern on disk /var/log/<application>/<application>_[YYYYMMDD].log (one file per day).

I will configure it accordingly.

Thank you.
That helped me a lot.