Re: [Summary-Talk] 2 gig limit reached - maybe

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan K Jackson wrote:
> 
> Lately I have
> been getting reports that the logs have reached the two gig limit.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated. I am currently running Summary 2.3.14
> on an Xserve using OS X Server 10.2.8 and iTools 7.x.

This sounds like a known problem. If you run the regular Macintosh
version of Summary (which displays a small console window while it is
running) and have it setup to read a log file that is currently being
written to by a web server, Summary will keep reading the file past the
end of the file until it has read 2 Gig, at which point it will give up.
This results in inaccurate numbers (way too high) in the reports.

There are two work arounds. You can avoid letting Summary read the
current log file, and only report on logs that have already been
rotated. Logs that are not currently open by the web server work
correctly. Or, you can switch to the OSX Command Line version of
Summary, which does not have this problem.

This problem is caused by a bug in OS X that prevents Carbon
applications from being able to detect the end of file on a file
currently open for writing by another application. Rather annoyingly,
Apple has announced that they are not going to fix this bug, so we are
currently in the process of rewriting Summary so that it no longer uses
Carbon. Unfortunately, that is a fairly large project, and one which
will force us to drop OS 9 support, so I can't give you an estimated
availability date.

> One other question, will Summary 2.3.x run properly on OS X Server
> 10.4.x, or am I looking at needing to upgrade?

Yes, we have tested Summary 2.3.14 (and 2.5.5), both regular and command
line, with OS X 10.4 and 10.4.1 and all combinations work just fine (or
rather, as well as they work on other versions of OS X).

Jason

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