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Very big log file

djarty — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:42:04 GMT

Hello!Got the very big log files in tomcat/logs/Inside Something like: .............127.0.0.1 - - [13/Apr/2018:00:00:19 +0300] "GET /alfresco/service/api/solr/transactions?fromCommitTime=1522634233889&toCommitTime=1522637833889&maxResults=2000&baseUrl=%2Fsolr4%2Farchive&hostName=Alf&

Re: Very big log file

cesarista — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:57:26 GMT

Hi:

Maybe this helps:

Basic maintenaince of your Alfresco logs - Simple tips about Alfresco logs - zylk

Regards.

--C.

Re: Very big log file

djarty — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:03:55 GMT

Hi! Its looks like fight with log size but not with source of problem

I figure out something about solrcore.properties and

alfresco.cron=0/15 * * * * ? *

inside ... may be need to make more than 15 sec.

But i think better way suppress exactly this solr log messg about datascan..

So how to unlog this mess but continue to log another one?

Re: Very big log file

cesarista — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:58:17 GMT

Hi:

You may increase SOLR cronjob, but this would imply that your document indexes are not complete or consistent during at least this time (15s). This cronjob is run for indexing (asyncronously) last transactions created in Alfresco.

Regards.

--C.

Re: Very big log file

djarty — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:28:20 GMT

So how to suppress exactly this "GET /alfresco/service/api/solr/transactions?... log strings (in localhost_access_log...txt)

Also anyway - some problem exists.

In one second - ~50 requests and another 50 next second step by step. so this request don't run every 15 sec.. its run all the time after start alfresco (even dont login and do nothing)

Re: Very big log file

djarty — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:01:43 GMT

Looking for localhost_access_log...txt

And see

From start using alfresco it was 10-20 requests every 15 sec

Now its more than 100-200 requests and looks like its not enough time to get answer or something and must to start next requests

Think (may be wrong) something related with "POST /alfresco/service/api/solr/modelsdiff HTTP/1.1" 200 37

Also looking on CPU load .. every 15 sec like a pulsar - maximum CPU load..

If not possible to decrease GET requests count.. I hope possible not write all of them into log file and dont make iotop ...

P.S. now just use Cesar recommendation and turn off local access log via server.xml

But many Get requests and CPU load in this time looking not good, need tune.

Re: Very big log file

oscareubieda — Mon, 28 May 2018 19:12:56 GMT

Greetings, I am currently having the same problem. I noticed when I saw that the hard disk of the server was full, when I checked I noticed that it had files logs with a weight of more than 2GB.

I have not found a solution to my problem yet.

Re: Very big log file

cesarista — Tue, 29 May 2018 13:59:52 GMT

Check the above link Oscar.

Probably you need to purge some logs under tomcat/logs or deactivate localhost-access logs in tomcat configuration.

Regards.

--C.

Re: Very big log file

n-schwalbe — Mon, 23 May 2022 08:46:45 GMT

Hello,

it is 2022 and I still run in this issue with Alfresco 7.1.1 and Search Service 2.0.2

localhost_access.log is growing and growing. It seems Search Service repeatedly asks Alfresco for the same transactions.

Does anyone found a solution?

Re: Very big log file

angelborroy — Mon, 23 May 2022 09:13:08 GMT

I guess that @cesarista included the right link to change that default configuration:

https://www.zylk.net/en/web-2-0/blog/-/blogs/simple-tips-about-alfresco-logs

4. Disable Tomcat localhost logs (localhost_access_log*)

Sometimes it is desired to disable localhost_access_log* logs. For this, you should comment the valve part in server.xml config

$ vim $ALF_HOME/tomcat/conf/server.xml

<!--
        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
               prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
               pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />
-->

(and restart Alfresco Service)

Did you try this approach?

Re: Very big log file

n-schwalbe — Mon, 23 May 2022 10:17:39 GMT

No, I have not. But I thought more of a solution that not just disable or clean the logs but solves the actual problem of the repeated requests from the search service.

But if there is no other solution than I will clean the logs periodically.

Re: Very big log file

angelborroy — Mon, 23 May 2022 10:27:37 GMT

Those repeated requests from Search Service are happening by design.

Search Service is invoking the Repository periodically to perform indexing operations.

By default, that happens every 5 seconds:

https://docs.alfresco.com/search-services/latest/config/properties/#solr-index-properties

Re: Very big log file

butterman2 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:05:43 GMT

Noticed this happening on our server. The api calls are split into hourly chunks when solr is polling alfresco for latest transactions. If you havn't changed any documents or document permissions (ACLs) for a while then these API calls get very numerous and repeat every 10 secs or so. We had a test server in this position where we hadn't touched it for a couple of months and noticed the CPU going crazy. By uploading a new document and changing a doc permissions made it all go back to normal.