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Sv_Bell
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February 6, 2013
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FMS 4.5 - Problem with generating log

  • February 6, 2013
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Hi there!

I have a strange problem I have no clue what could be wrong, or how to fix.

I am streaming continuous video, 24/7, and I use Sawmill to generate report on the server's stream activity. Been working flawlessly for 12 months. For the past 3 days, the activity report shows little to no activity on the server. There used to be around 3000 streams delivered a few days ago, and suddenly it felt to 3.

I checked the logs that Flash Media Server generates, and the recent logs are nearly empty, and the file weight around 30k. The log files from a few days ago weight around 10MB.

So I took a look at the ongoing, current log file being generated (the .00 file), and I can see it increasing in size. When it gets to midnight, and weight around 10MB too, FMS moves the file to .01 and start a new one for the new day, and the renamed .01 log file gets nearly emptied. Then Sawmill use that file to generate the report, causing all values to be zero.

So my question is: how can I fix that, and prevent FMS 4.5 to erase a log when beginning a new one? It just doesn't make any sense it erases data before archiving it... There is plenty of space on the hard drive, so it ain't a storage issue.

Thanks for any advice!

-Sv Bell

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    February 15, 2013

    what are you log rotation settings on Logger.xml?

    Inspiring
    February 14, 2013

    Hi,

    That is indeed strange. First I will suggest you to stop your server, clear all logs and then start again. If this does not work, we can play around with the log settings at conf/Logger.xml.

    Let me know how restarting works out.

    Thanks,

    Shiven