I have 8GB of RAM that I have tested, but recently I have been getting Out of Memory / Kernal Panics due to what I believe is the log getting too big, I think it is because of a particular warning message that repeats every few minutes.  I have Supermicro MV8 cards and I think due to the current driver, I think these messages are generated in the log.  Any Unix gurus know how I can trim my log hourly or do something to eliminate the out of memory problem?  Thanks.

 

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you can try..

 

 

if you want to compress the prior log

 

uncomment

#compress

in /etc/logrotate.conf

 

sed -iv -e 's/#compress/compress/g' /etc/logrotate.conf

 

 

if you want to run it hourly add

cp -piv /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.hourly

 

You may need to use the -f force option in the hourly job.

-f, --force              Force file rotation

 

 

 

Thanks, I set that up. Working well. Now to figure out how to fix the root cause.