GBs of logfiles?

[maelstrm 0]

Hi Anthony (et al),

I've noticed DriveBender is storing lots of large (>200mb) log files in ProgramData. The filenames are "HealthMonitorAudit", and they're totalling 2.6GB going back 3 months (to late March).

This seems like a bit of a waste of SSD space since I have DB set to no logging - is this happening by design and can I turn it off via a standard setting I've overlooked? If not is it something that can/should be adjusted?

Cheers for any insight.

[w3wilkes 167]

You should definitely open a support ticket with this question

https://support.division-m.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I would tend to agree that we should be able to shut this off.

[ruralcricket 19]

I thought I'd share my stats. Some files are very old!

 

File Type	Total Size (Bytes)	# of files
BalancingAudit	131,660,860	11
BalancingQueue	122,365,643	11
db.sil	809,987,510	10
HealthMonitorAudit	7,519,760,428	11
Grand Total	8,583,774,441	43
Row Labels	Max of Date	Min of Date
BalancingAudit	11/27/2017	11/26/2017
BalancingQueue	11/27/2017	11/26/2017
db.sil	6/13/2018	6/12/2018
HealthMonitorAudit	6/10/2018	4/6/2018

[CBers 85]

I have 27 FILES on the Logs folder, going back 1 month.

Total size is 367MB.

[Anthony 244]

There should be a max of 10 sil files, and a similar number for the other logs (can't recall the exact number, need to check). Let me look into this... we are just finishing dev work DB v3, so if there is an issue we would want it sorted before it's release.

[revengineer 62]

On 6/21/2018 at 1:27 AM, Anthony said:

we are just finishing dev work DB v3...

Do tell....

[maelstrm 0]

On 6/21/2018 at 3:27 PM, Anthony said:

There should be a max of 10 sil files, and a similar number for the other logs (can't recall the exact number, need to check). Let me look into this... we are just finishing dev work DB v3, so if there is an issue we would want it sorted before it's release.

Hi Anthony,

I've just run a drive space review and found that the DriveBender log directory is now over 12gb! The big files all start with "HealthMonitorAudit". The oldest is from 14 October 2018 and most recent is from 15 August 2019. There are 41 HealthMonitorAudits in the folder. Each file is about 300mb, with a trend of growing over time (a few exceptions to this, perhaps because the machine was turned off during audits?)

It seems to be a list of every single file on my drive pool with a couple of attributes (IsDup, IsAudited, VolumeName, etc).

I'm running DriveBender 3.1.0.0 and as far as I can see I have logging off (eg Settings>Performance>Logging Level = None).

Is there a log for the HealthMonitor I need to disable, or some kind of switch so it only keeps 1-2 logs? In the interim can I delete the old logs manually as a workaround? Is this normal behavior?

[w3wilkes 167]

12GB seems quite large. My total for the log folder is only 428MB. Your best shot for a quick response is to open a support ticket to ask Anthony.

[oj88 17]

I just opened a ticket. I was wondering why my SSD system drive was running out of space. To my surprise, the DB log files I have total to just a few bytes shy of 60GB! That's dating back to Jan or Feb this year.

I asked two things....

1. Can it be safely trimmed down or removed altogether?

2. Can it be moved to a different, non-SSD drive? And in doing so, will the performance degrade?

UPDATE:

After receiving a reply from Anthony, I went ahead and deleted all the files under the Logs directory. The server is still up and my SSD can breathe again.