Symptoms

The default setting for logrotation on host-os is once per day. This can be troublesome if a problem arises and causes an excessive amount of log files to be generated. In such cases, the log files will grow to several GBs within a day.

Impact

System disk gets full and becomes unusable.

Conditions

If any service floods the logfiles under /var/log then file starts to grow in GBs.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

This issue has been fixed and the Log files will no longer grow in GBs.

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips