[plug] Mount Compressed Image

[Lucas van staden]

Hi , not a solution, just a question/observation regarding your solution.

Considering how large your logs are already, how much more will they grow,
and at what rate?

Your solution, although a lot more elegant than just increasing volume
space, would potentially have the same issue down the line, which would
then require more time to solve the same issue again.

Is that really thus a good solution? Not dissing your idea, and some good
thinking out the box, but sometimes staying within the box is better ;)

-Lucas

www.dedmeet.com
On Jun 7, 2012 3:58 PM, "Alexander Hartner" <alex at j2anywhere.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have a process which every so often could run out of memory. To
> diagnose the problem we are generating a full memory dump of the process.
> Our problem is that the generated dump does not fit onto the available
> allocated disk space. Before you go off and tell me to get more disk space
> I have to say that this is in a VM. We could increase the amount of space
> available, however before doing this I was contemplating other options.
> What I came up with was to use a compressed image to write the logs to.
> Something like mounting a ZIP file in read / write mode. Writing speed is
> not that much of an issue here as long as it is comparable to using an NFS
> share. The file being generated is possibly several GB large. In testing
> GZIP managed to reduce it significantly.
>
> I had a look online and found several options to achieve this in read-only
> mode, but I need write access to the compressed disk image as well.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Alex
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