Log file is giant - 20GB

My log file for old node has got to a pretty silly size. Should there not be some limit to stop it using all space on your drive and crashing?

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Turn on file system compression on this file and don’t think much about it for years. Having logs is useful.

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Activating NTFS native compression for this particular log file (I guess that’s what you meant) would definitely save some space on such files indeed.
I suspect @TechAUmNu’s log file would go down to using around 8GiB of space instead of 20GiB. Still quite big.

Agreed :wink:
Although… It might not be useful to keep them for years.
Personally, I keep 4 months of logs, then I discard them.

I use logrotate for doing so on Linux. Surely there must be an alternative for doing the same on Windows?

ROTFL LOL!!! Only some third-parties.

Logrotate is also available for windows.

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