[ARGUS] log file roll-over

Russell Fulton r.fulton at auckland.ac.nz
Wed Jun 30 16:06:50 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:39, Peter Van Epp wrote:

> 	I long ago removed the rasort from the archive script. When I 
> just tried one it indeed segfaulted likely because of insufficient memory
> which is why I removed it in the first place. As far as I can see that doesn't
> seem to hurt anything (although it may be costing me somewhere else that I
> don't know about of course :-)).

I have never used rasort during the rollover process.  What I do do is
to use rasort on extracted data when the order is important and this is
for possibly one in ten investigations.  So I end p sorting a few
thousand entries occasionally instead of millions (billions ?) every
hour.

Russell




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