LOGROTATE_MAX_SIZE has no effect

[albuntu148]

Hi folks,
I just stumbeled upon the log-directory of my paperlexx-ngx installation (docker on my Synology NAS) and saw that there are many log files.
celery.log, mail.og, paperless.log with size bigger than 3MB.
And a lot of the same files with .1, .2... with size of 1MB.

Somehow the log rotate and log size limiting ist not working any more.
Just tried to set both variable like stated in the docs, but this has no effect.

This are set in my docker-conpose.env:
PAPERLESS_LOGROTATE_MAX_BACKUPS=10
PAPERLESS_LOGROTATE_MAX_SIZE=1048576

The paperless guys couldn't help me there and sent me over here.
paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx#8300

Any idea here?

[Preston-Landers]

Hey sorry it took a long time to respond to this at all.

There has never been a hard guarantee that the log files will never exceed the max size. However, generally if it goes over the size it should only be over by 1-2 log entries. Now if your individual log entries are very large, like 500+ KB, then yeah I could see it leading to 2-3 MB logs where you are expecting 1 MB. I'm guessing that's probably not the case though, but let me know.

Otherwise, as far as I know, log rotation is fully working. It's covered pretty extensively in the project unit tests. There was recently a new version of CLH 0.9.26 that improved performance and had some other fixes, so I suppose it's worth a try.

If I'm provided a repo or other code sample that demonstrates the issue I'd be happy to try to debug it.