User story #3567
closedSize of /var
Description
When /var is full, Rudder stops working. It's difficult to know how big /var must be on a Rudder server and/or a Rudder node. Also Rudder stops working without a warning with a full /var partition.
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 11 years ago
- Assignee set to Dennis Cabooter
When /var is full we can't log anything anymore.
I think we need to add a warning message when /var reach 95% of its size.
This should be checked at the webapp start, and logs it as a warning.
I think we could display that warning in the webapp (maybe in the 'administration -> policy server' page)
We should also check that information regularly (every day ? ) and logs it.
To sum up, here are my 3 proposals:
Warning when > 95% /var usage :- Log at Rudder start
- display inside the policy server page.
- check every Day/hour/month and log if needed
Dennis what do you think about those ideas ? would that answer to your needs about log ?
You're right, determining the size needed by Rudder is very complicated.
The postgres is what take most part of it.
We need to add a way to estimates its growth, I'll open another ticket about that subject and reference it here
Dennis, I have other questions about what's happenning when /var is full:
- Does the webapp is still reachable ? (naviagte through pages ? I think writing new things or access to reporting are broken)
- Is restarting works ?
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 11 years ago
- Status changed from New to Discussion
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 11 years ago
I create a ticket about having database disk space usage and its growth estimation here #3568
Updated by Dennis Cabooter over 11 years ago
Actually I faced the following problems after /var was 100% full and resized afterwards:
- PostGres had errors and did not start properly
- The web interface was unresponsive
- CFengine had problems (Had to remove /var/rudder/cfengine-community/state and /var/rudder/cfengine-community/*.db)
Updated by Nicolas PERRON over 11 years ago
- Target version changed from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4
Updated by Nicolas PERRON over 11 years ago
- Project changed from 24 to Rudder
- Target version changed from 2.5.4 to 2.5.5
Updated by Nicolas PERRON over 11 years ago
- Target version changed from 2.5.5 to 2.5.6
Updated by Nicolas PERRON about 11 years ago
- Target version changed from 2.5.6 to Ideas (not version specific)
Dennis, what do you think about the proposition of Vincent which are:
- Have a warning message when /var reach 95% of its size
- Have these informations on the webapp
- have a check every day and logged
Updated by Jonathan CLARKE about 11 years ago
Just to clarify, the check should not be on /var but on "the partition(s) that contain /var/rudder and /var/log/rudder".
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE almost 7 years ago
- Is duplicate of Bug #11739: When we have a /var full, Rudder LDAP or Postgres can be corrupted added
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE almost 7 years ago
- Status changed from Discussion to Rejected
Done in #11739