<div dir="ltr"><div>AFAIK, file size truncation only happens when the "read head" of the disk queue file catches up to the "write head".</div><div>So it is considered to be normal behavior to have a multi-gigabyte disk queue file (if it is still below the maximum allowed size, set in the configuration) that only has a few kilobytes of meaningful (as in actual data that needs to be buffered at the moment) data in it.</div><div>If the queue file becomes empty (the read head becomes equal to the write head) then (or at the next restart at the latest) the file will be truncated.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>János<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--</div><div dir="ltr">Janos SZIGETVARI<br><span>RHCE, License no. <a href="https://www.redhat.com/rhtapps/verify/?certId=150-053-692" target="_blank">150-053-692</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/janosszigetvari" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/janosszigetvari</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>__@__˚V˚<br>Make the switch to open (source) applications, protocols, formats now:<br>- windows -> Linux, iexplore -> Firefox, msoffice -> LibreOffice<br>- msn -> jabber protocol (Pidgin, Google Talk)<br>- mp3 -> ogg, wmv -> ogg, jpg -> png, doc/xls/ppt -> odt/ods/odp</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Fabien Wernli <<a href="mailto:wernli@in2p3.fr">wernli@in2p3.fr</a>> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jún. 15., H, 10:06):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:09:25PM +0530, Raghunath Adhyapak wrote:<br>
> - The buffer file keeps increasing in size.<br>
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I'm pretty sure this isn't normal behaviour.<br>
If the queue is short (as reported by `syslog-ng-ctl stats`) the file size<br>
should be close to zero.<br>
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