[rabbitmq-discuss] LATEST.LOG growth on clustered ram node

Mon Jun 20 23:30:12 BST 2011

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:24:45PM -0400, Chris Madden wrote:
> In a nutshell, the LATEST.LOG file on my ram clustered node grows, by
> all accounts, forever. I left it running over the weekend and it was
> well over 500meg. In the past I've let it run until it consumed all
> the space on the partition and the broker instance cratered. Running
> it as a ram node instead of a disc node obviates the problem, but is
> sub-optimal.
> 
> I'm using rabbit 2.5.0, though I've seen the problem on 2.4.0 and
> 2.4.1. The OS is linux based (2.6.32), and our Erlang version is R14A.

Very interesting. I've not heard of that one before and it certainly
points to an mnesia issue. R14A is a beta release and I would strongly
point an accusing finger at that first. Please try the latest Erlang
R14B03.

Matthew