1mb every few minutes is inconsequential - no impact on performance or
disk space. You have logrotate to handle the disk space.

1gb every few minutes and you have a real problem to worry about in
terms of both performance and disk space.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Douglas Duckworth
<dod2014@med.cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks to several users on this list I have our cluster up and running.
> The databases look good as does performance.
>
> However, logs are increasing about 1MB every few minutes.
>
> Does everyone typically send all of local4 to a file or only filter out for
> example warning and above?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS
> HPC System Administrator
> Scientific Computing Unit
> Physiology and Biophysics
> Weill Cornell Medicine
> E: doug@med.cornell.edu
> O: 212-746-6305
> F: 212-746-8690